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second estate
noun
the second of the three estates: the nobles in France; the lords temporal in England.
second estate
noun
rarethe nobility collectively
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of second estate1
Example Sentences
This second estate, an extension of land seized by King Henry III in 1265, encompasses 45,000 acres in England and Wales.
Both men keep second estates in Palm Beach, Florida, and their shared sensibilities go well beyond their mutual love of deal-making and obsession with celebrity.
Purple Bricks is the second estate agent to list this year, following Hunters Property Plc.
The first and second estates are not fused into one, simply because they continue to deliberate and vote together as all three did at the first.
I am just buying 150 acres more at Chocorua, to round off our second estate there.
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