Sentence examples for The fief from inspiring English sources
noun
An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior.
The fief holder swore fidelity to the person from whom the fief was held (the lord, dominus, or seigneur) and became his (or her) man.
The fief constituted the central institution of feudal society (see feudalism).
The fief created by Edwin Englehardt, a Republican who ruled the agency for 27 years and was widely regarded as one of the most powerful men in Passaic County politics, seemed unbreakable until a criminal investigation in 2000.
The fief included a large estate with date palms.
Later, humiliated and exiled, he sails aboard the Ibis past the fief he once ruled.
It is also the fief of the national team coach, Matjaz Kek.
Farther north is the fief of a former Bangladeshi dictator, Mohammad Ershad.
The philosopher Giambattista Vico (1668 1744) considered the fief one of humankind's eternal institutions.
[C7.] Diversity for Agnelli Family at Fiat Fiat has always been considered the fief of the Agnelli family.
With astonishing speed, British electricity generation, once the fief of King Coal, has been switching to cleaner, cheaper gas.
Clement tried to avert this union by investing Count Tancred of Lecce with the fief of Sicily.
