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British House of Lords   /brˈɪtɪʃ haʊs əv lɔrdz/   Listen
British House of Lords

noun
1.
The upper house of the British parliament.  Synonym: House of Lords.





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... establishment of the bicameral, or two-chamber system, in our legislative scheme, is strikingly apparent. At the time of its creation, it had no counterpart in any of the Governments of continental Europe. Its only prototype, in so far as it was such, was the British House of Lords as already indicated. ...
— Something of Men I Have Known - With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective • Adlai E. Stevenson


Words linked to "British House of Lords" :   House of Lords, British Parliament, peer of the realm, house


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