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单词 council-chamber
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council-chambern.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcouncil-ˈchamber.
An apartment appropriated to the meetings of a council; the place of consultation.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > place of > hall, house, or room
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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.
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