droit du seigneur

droit du seigneur (drwah d[schwa] sen-yuur). [French “right of the lord”] Hist.

1. A supposed customary right of a feudal lord to have sexual intercourse with a tenant’s bride on her wedding night.

2. A supposed custom requiring sexual abstinence by a couple on their wedding night. — Also spelled droit de seigneur. — Also termed jus primae noctis.

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