demesne /dɪˈmeɪn/ noun2 •A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.This area to the west of the city had been a priory demesne in the sixteenth century, but in the frantic landgrab that followed the Restoration of the 1660s, […] — 2023 •A region or area; a domain.Oft of one wide expanse had I been told / That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; […] — 1816 formsdemesnes
