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Definition of Lobbies
1. lobby [v] - See also: lobby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lobbies
Literary usage of Lobbies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Problem of Government by Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Lindsay Rogers (1921)
"This is accomplished by the maintenance at the National Capital of more than a
hundred lobbies, whose duty it is to watch not only the Chief Executive but ..."
2. Parliamentary Procedure and Practice, with an Introductory Account of the by John George Bourinot (1884)
"Misbehaviour in Committees or lobbies.—When a member misbehaves himself in a ...
If a member insult another in any of the lobbies or rooms belonging to the ..."
3. Practical Illumination by James Raley Cravath, Van Rensselaer Lansingh (1907)
"In the lighting of hotel lobbies, large railroad depots, main floor halls of
large buildings, etc., the object to be attained is a general cheerful effect, ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1874)
"... fidelity and »bility with which he has filled the Executive'chair for the last
three years ; and further and giving rise to lobbies which tend to hring ..."
5. Cyclopedia of Architecture: Historical, Descriptive, Typographical by Robert Stuart (1854)
"4M Provide and fix doors, with ventilators, to cells, iron gates and bars to the
passages, staircases, and lobbies, in the upper story of the prison ..."
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