third estate
Example Sentences
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And now the fencing has come to the Supreme Court, to the third estate.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2022
The term had a special resonance with his Francophone audience because it recalled the third estate, “tiers-état,” of the French Revolution.
From Time • Aug. 26, 2015
Has the King ordered us, too, to sit with the third estate?
From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John
The representatives of the third estate declare themselves a 'National Assembly.'
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey
Tiers �tat, tyārz ā-t�′, n. the third estate of the realm, the common people in relation to political power.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
