| 释义 |
parliament-house, parliament house
The building in which a parliament meets.
Formerly applied to the (Old) Houses of Parliament at Westminster; still used of the building in Edinburgh in which the Scottish Parliament met (now used as the general waiting-room and lounge of persons engaged in the business of the Court of Session), and of those of various Colonial Legislatures.
c1394P. Pl. Crede 202 Y-set on lofte; As a Parlement⁓hous. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cxxviii. 363 The constable hath entred his quarell and plee agaynst you in the parlyament house of Parys. 1545Brinklow Compl. 27 Ye that be lordes and burgessys of the parlament house. 1605in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) I. 36 There was placed under the Parliament House, where the King should sit, some thirty barrels of powder. 1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4270/3 His Grace..was attended in his going to the Parliament-House [Edinburgh] by most of the Nobility. 1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. III. 165 Their first intention was to bore a way under the parliament-house from that which they occupied. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. v, The haill Parliament House..was speaking o' naething else. 1836Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. 23 July, A wearisome and fruitless debate on the plans for the new Parliament-houses. |
