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DEMESNE [fro] [mf]
1. [demaine] .
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[fro-nom-m] DEMESNE [fro] [m]
1. [demaine] .
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*** [étymologie]
De l’ [xno] , _demene_ , issu de l’ [fro] _demeine_ , _demaine_ , _demeigne_ , _domaine_ « puissance » (qui a donné en français domaine ), un nom tiré d’un adjectif, issu du [la] , dérivé de _dominus_ « maître , propriétaire ».
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[ˌdɪˈmeɪn] DEMESNE
1. [féodalité] Domaine proche d’un fief , c’est-à-dire le manoir et la réserve seigneuriale et non les mouvance s.
2. Propriété , domaine .
3. * {{ exemple | lang=en
| Oft of one wide expanse had I been told<br/>That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his DEMESNE;
| source=[John Keats], _On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer_, lignes 5-6, 1816}}
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| I could spot no friendly native to tell me where I might find Bobbie. I proceeded, therefore, to roam hither and thither about the grounds and messuages in the hope of locating her, wishing that I had a couple of bloodhounds to aid me in my task, for the Travers DEMESNE is a spacious one and there was a considerable amount of sunshine above, though none, I need scarcely mention, in my heart.
| source=[P. G. Wodehouse], _Jeeves in the Offing_, chapitre III, 1960}}
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| One minute before his death, as we were crossing from his DEMESNE to mine and had begun working up between the junipers and ornamental shrubs, a Red Admirable (see note to line 270) came dizzily whirling around us like a colored flame.
| source=[Vladimir Nabokov], _Pale Fire_, commentaire, note aux lignes 993-995, 1962}}
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