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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

While treach'rous Fortune with slight honours fed My first estate, she almost drown'd my head, And now since—clouded thus—she hides those rays, Life adds unwelcom'd length unto my days.

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers

Have you ever thought of the glory of Eden, the first estate of man?

From Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales by Robert L. Taylor

It is the theater alone, as in its first estate a probable work of the first Hierôn, which at all connects itself with our present time.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey


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