单词 | council-chamber |
释义 | council-chambern. An apartment appropriated to the meetings of a council; the place of consultation. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > place of > hall, house, or room moot-houseOE moot hall1305 council house1393 chamber1428 council-chamberc1515 session-house1599 camera1658 council-hall1683 council-room1774 c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxiii. 254 The barons..went out of the counsell chambre. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 208/1 Counsell chambre, chambre de parlement. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 3 May (1972) VI. 96 Thence..to White-hall to the council-chamber. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 301 Irreverent methodism..rushes with sawcy familiarity into the council chamber of heaven. 1886 J. Morley Pattison's Mem. in Crit. Misc. III. 160 Those who..fought in literature, in the council-chamber, in the field, against the Church revival of their day. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.c1515 |
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