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Noun: second estate  'se-kund e'steyt
Usage: Brit
  1. The nobility in France and the peerage in Britain
    "The second estate enjoyed numerous privileges before the French Revolution";
    - Lords Temporal [Brit]

Derived forms: second estates

Type of: estate [Brit], estate of the realm [Brit], the three estates [Brit]

Encyclopedia: Second estate