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estate

/ɪˈsteɪt/ adjective C2
  1. Previously owned; secondhand. · an estate diamond; estate jewelry
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Part of this venerable building dates back to the time of the first crusade, when Hugo de Capus built a fortalice in the centre of the estate, which had been granted to him by the Red King.
The Valley of Fear, p. 22 · C1
WHEN I am grown to man's estate
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 3 · C1
He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 41 · B2
He made his money in real estate, and afterwards in the wheat pit at Chicago, but he spent it in buying up as much land as would make one of your counties, lying along the Arkansas River, west of Fort Dodge.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 75 · B2

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