duchas

D2U1C3H4A1S1

noun

An inheritance.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

noun
  1. IrelandScotlandAn inheritance.

    The old house of Wester Leys still stands, but a wreck, and the only marks which denote that it was once the duchas of a gentleman are a few ornamental trees around what must have been at the time the garden

    1890, Charles Fraser Mackintosh, Letters of Two Centuries, page 306
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