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.
Later, humiliated and exiled, he sails aboard the Ibis past the fief he once ruled.
The fief constituted the central institution of feudal society (see feudalism).
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.
African languages, the subject of his first foray into linguistics, were at that time the fief largely of British and French linguists.
In what appeared to be coordinated attacks, forces from three neighboring provinces moved on districts in Herat Province, the fief of the powerful warlord Ismail Khan.
