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In pre-Revolutionary America: a colony whose proprietor exercised palatine rights. Also in extended use. Now chiefly historical.
a colony founded by Royal Charter.
a colony with a governor appointed by the British monarch.
a dominion (dominion, n. 2b) in which the majority of the inhabitants are white.