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noun (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance
noun something that has been in a family for generations
originInherited from Middle English heirlome (“heirloom”, literally “a tool or article passed to one's heirs”). By surface analysis, heir + loom. Displaced native Old English fæderġestrēon.
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