legatee

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She wore white, the color of the suffragette movement, of which Pelosi was a legatee and enormous champion.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Why should Phillips nod to a film of 1936, if not to stake his claim as a legatee?

From The New Yorker • Sep. 27, 2019

As a legatee of the civil rights struggles that peaked in the 1960s, he considers the nature of the movement’s achievements in light of present-day racial realities.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2015

The 43 volumes found in Williams's flat on the day he died now belong to his friend and legatee Paul Richardson.

From The Guardian • Oct. 9, 2010

It is to be hoped that the legatee got his hat, but, as many provisions of the will do not appear to have been complied with, it seems doubtful.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.