mesne lord

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   a feudal lord who was lord to his own tenants on land held from a superior lord

   BroaderLord

Questions about mesne lord

What does mesne lord mean?

mesne lord means "a feudal lord who was lord to his own tenants on land held from a superior lord".

Is mesne lord a common word?

mesne lord is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.