bequest
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Photograph: Tate/Trustees Of The Chantrey Bequest How many ways are there to tell the story of British art?
From The Guardian • May 3, 2013
Besides, the words Legacy, Bequest, go side by side with the words, Death, Funeral.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Her picture called the "Morning Bath," exhibited at the Academy in 1896, was purchased under the Chantry Bequest and is in the Tate Gallery.
From Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Waters, Clara Erskine Clement
Bequest, be-kwest′, n. act of bequeathing: that which is bequeathed, a legacy.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
"We don't altogether know what attitude to take up over the Rhodes Bequest," said Maurice.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
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