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duchas

duchas noun: an inheritance.

Noun

duchas

  1. (Ireland, Scotland) An 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 garden1890, Charles Fraser Mackintosh, Letters of Two Centuries, page 306

Questions about duchas

What does duchas mean?
Duchas means an inheritance.
What part of speech is duchas?
Duchas is a noun.

Words near duchas in the dictionary

  1. Duchaines
  2. Duchamp
  3. Duchampian
  4. Ducharme
  5. Ducharmes
  6. duchas
  7. Duchembegarra
  8. duchen
  9. Duchene
  10. Ducheneaux
  11. Duchenes

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