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
The woman’s rights movement has very few adherents in the third estate, and it is exactly the women of this estate that ought to be the natural supporters of the movement.
From The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey by Schirmacher, Kaethe
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
On the 19th of November Parliament met again, and in a mood which boded ill for the relations between the sovereign and the third estate of his realm.
From William the Third by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)
