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Estates General

or Estates‑General

noun

, French History.
  1. the States-General.


Estates General

noun

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The Estates General were accordingly summoned to meet on May 1, 1789.

The committee from the Estates General, however, did not wait for this part of the celebration.

Punctually at that moment a delegation appeared from across the way, from the Estates General.

In 1439 the Estates General approved a plan devised by the king, for putting an end to this evil.

The Estates General, after hearing a statement of the case from one of Philip's lawyers, agreed to support their monarch.

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