legatee

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She wore white, the color of the suffragette movement, of which Pelosi was a legatee and enormous champion.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Why should Phillips nod to a film of 1936, if not to stake his claim as a legatee?

From The New Yorker • Sep. 27, 2019

As a legatee of the civil rights struggles that peaked in the 1960s, he considers the nature of the movement’s achievements in light of present-day racial realities.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2015

The 43 volumes found in Williams's flat on the day he died now belong to his friend and legatee Paul Richardson.

From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2010

"You are, I believe, Mr. Simcoe, owing to the death of this poor child, the principal legatee under the will of General Mathieson?"

From The Lost Heir by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)