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单词 division lobby
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division lobby
a. In the House of Commons, and other houses of legislature, a large entrance-hall or apartment open to the public, and chiefly serving for interviews between members and persons not belonging to the House; also (more fully division lobby), one of the two corridors to which members retire to vote when the House divides.
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1640 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 1 The outward Room of the Commons House, called the Lobby,..where the Cryer of the Chancery first made Proclamation in the King's name.
1648 C. Walker Relations & Observ. ii. 40 Refusing to let some Members passe out of the House, or come forth into the Lobby.
1648 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 39. sig. Eee2v Col. Pride..caused them [sc. Members] to retreat into the Lobby, where they use to drink Ale and Tobacco.
1695 Duke of Buckingham Speech House Peers 18 Apr. Wks. (1723) II. 123 I think the first time I propos'd it was here in the bishops lobby.
1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 196/1 While I waited in the lobby during the debate.
1798 I. Allen Nat. & Polit. Hist. Vermont 207 Colonel Allen went into the lobby, and began to write a memorial to the Legislature of New Hampshire.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil II. iv. iii. 166 The mysteries of the Lobby are only for the initiated. Three quarters of an hour after the division was called, the result was known to the exoteric world.
1865 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 178 164 If the hon. Member..should divide the House I shall go into the same lobby with him.
1887 Spectator 6 Aug. 1046/1 Considerations which chiefly determine the lobby into which Members of Parliament go.
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