Usually means: Land attached to a manor.
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  1. demesnes: Merriam-Webster
  2. demesnes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. demesnes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Demesnes, demesnes: Wordnik
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  6. demesnes: Dictionary.com
  7. Demesnes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (demesne)

noun:  A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.
noun:  A region or area; a domain.
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