bailleur
See also: bâilleur
French
Etymology
From bailler + -eur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.jœʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -jœʁ
Noun
bailleur m (plural bailleurs, feminine bailleresse)
- (historical) a landowner who let uncultivated parcels of land to a lessee in a crop-sharing system in early Middle Ages
- a lessor in general
Related terms
- bail
- bailleur social
See also
- preneur
References
Hugh Johnson, Vintage: The Story of Wine pg 116. Simon and Schuster 1989
Further reading
- “bailleur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- bullerai