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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

Paradise will come again; this world will, for a thousand years, see its first estate; it will be again the Garden of Eden.

From Solomon by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

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 Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

But the power which it wields is so enormous and so widespread that it would be nearer the truth to concede to it the dignity of the first estate.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 by Various