| 单词 | third estate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthird estate third estate was formerly common (now much less so) as a designation of the English ‘commons’ or (transl. French tiers état) the French bourgeoisie before the Revolution. The other two ‘estates’ are seldom spoken of numerically.extracted from estaten.third estate third estate n. the Commons: see estate n. 6. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > as represented in Parliament commona1350 commons1399 commonalty1450 third estate1604 commonage1651 third state1669 tiers état1783 1604 in T. Rymer & R. Sanderson Fœdera (1715) XVI. 562/1 Knightes and Burgesses..doe present the Bodie of the Thirde Estate. 1855 F. B. Wells tr. Thierry (title) The Formation and Progress of the Tiers État, or Third Estate in France. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xv. 185 That portion of the third estate which was represented by the knights of the shire. < as lemmas |
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