Meanings
nounpays d'état (plural pays d'état)
alternative pays d'états
- historicalAny of several provinces of pre-Revolutionary France which retained their own local assemblies.
Brittany was a pays d'état and while the province's elite of ancient Sword nobles controlled the Parlement at Rennes, its provincial estates were dominated by its extensive poor nobility [...].
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 272
Origin
- Frenchpays d'états
- Englishpays d'état
From French pays d'états.
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