| 单词 | house seat |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse seat house seat n. originally and chiefly North American (a) Politics (usually with capital initial in the first element) a place in the membership of a legislative or deliberative house; (b) a seat in a theatre, etc., reserved by the management for special guests. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > auditorium > [noun] > seat or place > types of seat pigeonhole1732 box seat1779 stall1828 orchestra seat1843 orchestra stall1849 fauteuil1859 sofa stall1862 stall seat1920 house seat1927 riser1945 1878 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 28 Nov. 5/1 (heading) The South Carolina and Louisiana contested House seats. 1926 Star-Jrnl. (Sandusky, Ohio) 29 Oct. 1/4 Democrats would have to win nine senate seats and 36 house seats. 1927 N.Y. Times 30 Oct. ix. 1/5 House seats, a few desirable seats reserved by the manager of the theatre or the producer of the show for personal use. 1949 Billboard 219 Nov. 48/1 The locations will come out of the ‘house seats’ reserved for the producers. 1963 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 57 54/1 In order to include all districts where the House seat was contested in 1958 this table retains ten constituencies in which the incumbent Congressman did not seek re-election. 1999 J. McBeth in Post-Soeharto Indonesia i. 27 It is hard to tell whether the military is prepared to retreat any further from its line in the sand at ten percent of the House seats. 2009 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 20 Sept. b1 With Edmonton's coterie of theatre artists newly returned to action..it's the moment to survey our prospects from the house seats. < as lemmas |
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