>>According to www.m-w.com:
>>Main Entry: de·mesne
>>Pronunciation: di-'mAn, -'mEn
>>
>>Basically, it's the same as "domain".
>
> I've always thought of it, along with milieu, dweomer, and
>glaive-guisarme, as a Gygaxism, plucked from obscurity to be overused
>drastically in the pages of the Dungeon Master Guide, and then used
>in gaming occasionally ever since.
It's definitely one of those words that really only belongs in print... let it out into the free world of speech and who knows what might breed from it.
Wulf
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