second estate

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This second estate, an extension of land seized by King Henry III in 1265, encompasses 45,000 acres in England and Wales.

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2023

Durazo's second estate, in the Pacific resort town of Zihuatanejo, dubbed "the Parthenon," features decorative fountains, statues and marble-and-gold bathrooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

So now ex-Colonel Rodman, keeper of the national cemetery, viewed the little town in its second estate with philosophic eyes.

From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

Yes, my wife first taught me the knowledge of God, in the second estate, and opened to me the beauties of our Fathers' great plan.

From Added Upon A Story by Anderson, Nephi

The voice of the warriors constituted a counterbalance, or species of second estate.

From An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem by Hosmer, William H. C. (William Howe Cuyler)