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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-611/
- Published: 2021-10-01T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-12T18:44:40.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:31

The word for today is…

fief (noun) –

1 : a feudal estate  
2 : something over which one has rights or exercises control

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fief?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Never accuse The BFD Word of the Day of being incomplete. Today’s word is a follow up to yesterday’s – just to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. In European feudalism, a fief was a source of income granted to a person (called a vassal) by his lord in exchange for his services. The fief usually consisted of land and the labor of peasants who were bound to cultivate it. The income it provided supported the vassal, who was obliged to fight for his lord as a knight.

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