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first estate

NOUN
former social class
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When I attended my first estate sale in November at a Beverly Hills home, a stunning vintage Teac A-7010 tape recorder caught my attention.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2023

Anson MacAuslan was among the first estate managers to secure funding from Peatland Action — a project funded by the Scottish government to restore peatlands.

From Nature • Feb. 11, 2020

His manner showed it, to her impatient annoyance, as he hastily introduced another aspect of man's first estate.

From The Good Comrade by Betts, Anna Whelan

He might possibly have merely, when renouncing his toil over the up-grade of life, slipped back to his first estate, and thus have experienced in one sense no change at all.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

I remember now," said she, "as distinctly as though it were yesterday, what Father promised us in our first estate, that if we were faithful, we should be added upon, and still added upon.

From Added Upon A Story by Anderson, Nephi