Assertion: nobility's title | /r/ObjectUse | used for seigneurie
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text: What I suspect is that sieur fell into desuetude just as, late in the ancien regime, parvenus eager to be taken for noblesse d'epee widely assumed use of seigneur, gradually leaving sieur as a quaint title only used for a seigneurie that was never raised to a higher title by letters patent and so never ceased being called a sirerie.