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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

States-general

/(stāts"jĕn"ẽr*al)/ · States·-gen·er·al · IPA
01 n. In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, …
  1. 1.
    In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
  2. 2.
    In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers.