demesne: [dĭ-mān] noun possession of land as one's own; the land attached to a mansion.
Friend, in my mountain-side demesne,
My plain-beholding, rosy, green
And linnet-haunted garden-ground,
Let still the esculents abound.
----Robert Louis Stevenson
To A Gardener
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