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What is a fief?

What is a fief? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior.
  2. Something over which one has rights or exercises control.
  3. (figuratively) An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.
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The fief was usually land necessary to maintain the vassal, but oftentimes the vassal would receive regular payments of money from a lord.
That way, I would retain control of my own fief, and still have the man I loved.
Her parents were a baron and baroness and they had an older son as well that was to inherit the fief.
Prancor, too, was in the Wraston Basin, but it wasn't so much a mining fief as it was a lumber-oriented fief.
The push for freedom that began in Iraq is steadily wresting Lebanon away from its status as a fief of Damascus.
I love my people, the people of my fief, the fief that has been mine since the death of my mother.

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