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Definition
coming from the past or left to the future — especially a gift left in a will
- —Three girls, the two eldest sixteen and fourteen, was an awful legacy for a mother to bequeath, an awful charge rather, to confide to the authority and guidance of a conceited, silly father.Chapter 1 (23% in)
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