单词 | parliament chamber |
释义 | > as lemmasParliament chamber Parliament chamber n. a room in which Parliament or a parliament meets (formerly spec. that in the Old Palace of Westminster). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > place of meeting Parliament chamber1410 parliament house1440 senatoire1474 senatory1474 senate-house?1556 state house1608 senate1616 Thing-field1847 Thing-stead1847 1410 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 95 [At] Lambhethe [in a great chamber then called the] Parlement Chambre. 1540 Act 31 Hen. VIII c. 10 No person (except only the Kings children) shal at any time hereafter..presume, to sit or haue place at any side of the cloth of estate in the Parliament chamber. 1702 F. Atterbury Case Schedule Stated 26 The Place of that Common Parlance was call'd the Parliament Chamber. 1896 Law Times 102 123/2 A Parliament chamber [sc. in the Inns of Court] is close tiled, except for purposes of discipline affecting character. 1954 G. Godwin Middle Temple 130 In the Parliament Chamber of the Middle Temple there is a portrait of Hyde, the first Earl of Clarendon, by Sir Peter Lely. 1994 Social Forces 73 779 The possibility that ‘public space’, such as the sports arena, parliament chambers, and parade ground, has moved into the living room. < as lemmas |
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