parliament housen.
/ˈpɑːlᵻm(ə)nt ˌhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈpɑrləm(ə)nt ˌ(h)aʊs/ Frequently with capital initials. The building in which a parliament meets. Now usually without article (except when referring to the parliament house of a country other than that of the speaker).In England applied, in early use, to the (Old) Houses of Parliament at Westminster, which were replaced in 1852 by the new Palace of Westminster (now generally referred to as the Houses of Parliament). Also used of the building in Edinburgh where the Scottish Parliament formerly met, which now houses the Supreme Courts of Scotland but still retains the name, and applied to buildings housing the state or national assemblies of other countries where the legislature has the title ‘parliament’, as Australia, South Africa, etc.
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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
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 384 Parlement howse [?a1475 Winch. Parlemente hows], Concionabulum.
1473 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 589 I prey God send yow the Holy Gost amonge yow in the parlement howse.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxxviii. 363 The constable hath entred his quarell and plee agaynst you in the parlyament house of Parys.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. ii. 116 Wherein I report me to them that knew Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord keeper of the great Seale, or the now Lord Treasorer of England, and haue bene conuersant with their speaches made in the Parliament house & Starrechamber.
1605 in Court & Times James I (1849) I. 36 There was placed under the Parliament House, where the King should sit, some thirty barrels of powder.
1641 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1870) V. i. 626/1 That ordour be gevin for hinging of the parliament hous.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 25 Sept. (1972) VII. 295 To Parliament-house..and then delivered it [sc. a letter] at the House door.
1706 London Gaz. No. 4270/3 His Grace..was attended in his going to the Parliament-House [in Edinburgh] by most of the Nobility.
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. III. 165 Their first intention was to bore a way under the parliament-house from that which they occupied.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 121 The haill Parliament-house..was speaking o' naething else.
1836 T. P. Thompson Let. 23 July in Exercises (1842) IV. 152 A wearisome and fruitless debate on the plans for the new Parliament-houses.
1901 G. Balfour Life R. L. Stevenson vi He frequented the great hall of the Parliament House, which, like Westminster in old days, is the centre of the courts, and the haunt of advocates waiting for business.
1957 Ann. Reg. 1956 103 Maharashtrian demonstrations took place outside Parliament House in Delhi.
1998 Independent 7 July i. 11 (caption) Protesters mark the ‘day of shame’ on the lawns of Parliament House, Canberra, before a crucial vote on Aboriginal land rights.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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