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patrimony

[pa-truh-moh-nee] / ˈpæ trəˌmoʊ ni /


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The disgraced former prince received the honour in 2012 "by virtue of patrimony", due to his father Prince Philip having been a Freeman.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

They will be relentless in protecting their patrimony.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Michael Barry, a leading specialist in miniature art, said that people being deprived of their cultural patrimony was "the height of injustice".

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

And in 2009, the new constitution even recognized “ancestral coca as cultural patrimony, a renewable natural resource of Bolivia’s biodiversity, and as a factor of social cohesion.”

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2025

His first bom did not want this patrimony.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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