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first estate

NOUN
former social class
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When I attended my first estate sale in November at a Beverly Hills home, a stunning vintage Teac A-7010 tape recorder caught my attention.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2023

Anson MacAuslan was among the first estate managers to secure funding from Peatland Action — a project funded by the Scottish government to restore peatlands.

From Nature • Feb. 11, 2020

These had failed to keep their first estate.

From Added Upon A Story by Anderson, Nephi

The Paduans revenged themselves by confiscating Onaro, the first estate possessed by the Romano family in Italy.—Salinguerra.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward

I confess the Scripture does not expressly attribute these several endowments to Adam in his first estate.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South by Kleiser, Grenville