pays d'état

English

Alternative forms
  • pays d'états

Etymology

From French pays d’états.

Noun

pays d'état (plural pays d'état)

  1. (historical) Any of several provinces of pre-Revolutionary France which retained their own local assemblies.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 272:
      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 [...].

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