landed property
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“Domain” derives from Old French, denoting heritable or landed property; its Latin-derived cognate, “domicile,” means, of course, “home.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
The Romans used fundus to mean foundation or the main part of something, but especially to mean farm, or landed property - perhaps the basis of someone's wealth.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2015
I have lived here for many years, and, at one time, owned considerable landed property, and very often I would take my dogs out hunting mongooses in the pastures.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the same sad occasion my mother inherited a portion of some landed property in Friuli, which had belonged to an old aunt Tiepolo, who died intestate.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
Afterwards he retired to the more peaceful occupation of School Inspector, and when we knew him enjoyed a pension and landed property.
From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers
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