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Definition of Houses of Parliament
1. Noun. The building in which the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet.
Definition of Houses of Parliament
1. Proper noun. The House of Commons and the House of Lords housed within the Palace of Westminster ¹
2. Noun. (plural of House of Parliament) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Houses Of Parliament
Literary usage of Houses of Parliament
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"THE Houses of Parliament Parliament originated in the demand of the King's Great
Council, consisting of prelates, carls and barons, that there should be ..."
2. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1911)
"258), while Bridge Street, skirting the N. end of the Houses of Parliament, leads
to the E. to Westminster Bridge. The Surveyor? ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1858)
"Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, 1858. 2.
Report to the Right Honourable Lord Panmure, GCB, §c., of the Proceedings of the ..."
4. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1857)
"... by Act of I'arl iament respecting the power of the two Houses to print and
publish. its liberties are protected by the two Houses of Parliament. ..."
5. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
""That all the judges and all the officers, placed by approbation of both houses
of parliament, may hold their places quamdiu bene se ..."
6. The History of British India by James Mill, Horace Hayman Wilson (1858)
"Select Committees of both Houses of Parliament. —Parliament dissolved.—Committee
of House of Commons re-appointed,—interrupted and renewed. ..."
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