Definitions for second estate
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
sec′ond estate′(n.)
the second of the three estates: the nobles in France; the Lords Temporal in England.
Category: Western History
Ref: Compare estate (def. 6). 5
Princeton's WordNet
second estate, Lords Temporal(noun)
the nobility in France and the peerage in Britain
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