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单词 chequer-chamber
释义 chequer-chamber Obs.
1. The chamber devoted to the business of the royal exchequer; transf. treasury-room.
1494Fabyan vii. 342 The Kyng..yode into the Chekyr Chaumbre, and there satte hym downe.1611Coryat Crudities 449 A place where their Checker-chamber was for the safe keeping of the Roman treasure.
2. A court of appellate jurisdiction deciding cases of doubtful law; = exchequer-chamber; the chamber in which this court sat.
1528More Heresyes iii. Wks. 216/1 We might..make it a cheker chamber case.1643Herle Answ. Ferne 46 The major part of the Judges in the Chequer-chamber.a1714Burnet Own Time II. 66 That judge was one of those who delivered their judgment in the chequer-chamber against the ship-money.
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