The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CASTLES
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More clues leading to the result CASTLES
- Put Dawson in a show, perhaps for keeps
- Groups in society holding large, defendable properties
- Supporting actors, the French king moves
- The French occupying sheds or big buildings
- Moves involving kings — and where they might move to?
- Chessmen in defensive situations
- Social circles perhaps without large, palatial buildings
- Strongholds of religious sects supporting Left
- Indian groups maintaining large fortresses
- Moves involving kings and their traditional homes?
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The straight part
We know that "palatial buildings" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case palatial buildings = castles.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does CASTLES mean?
CASTLES noun- A large building that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king.
- An instance of castling.
- A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
- A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
- A close helmet.
- Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.
- A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
- The wicket.
- To house or keep in a castle.
- To protect or separate in a similar way.
- To make into a castle: to build in the form of a castle or add (real or imitation) battlements to an existing building.
- (usually intransitive) To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.
- (usually intransitive) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
- To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.