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France’s very old-fashioned king, one invading others’ lands (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trespasser

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'one invading others' lands' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'france's very old-fashioned king' is the wordplay.
'france's very' becomes 'tres' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'old-fashioned' becomes 'passe' (synonyms).
'king' becomes 'R' (abbreviation of Latin rex).
'tres'+'passe'+'r'='TRESPASSER'

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(Other definitions for trespasser that I've seen before include "Illegal enterer of land" , "One unlawfully entering another's land" , "One poaches, say" , "Palace intruder" , "Intruder into another's land" .)

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