ˈcouncil-ˈchamber
An apartment appropriated to the meetings of a council; the place of consultation.
| 1530 Palsgr. 208/1 Counsell chambre, chambre de parlement. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon lxxxiii. 254 The barons..went out of the counsell chambre. 1665 Pepys Diary (1879) III. 153 Thence..to White Hall to the Council-chamber. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 596 Irreverent methodism..rushes with saucy familiarity into the council-chamber of heaven. 1886 Morley Pattison's Mem. Crit. Misc. III. 160 Those who..fought in literature, in the council-chamber, in the field, against the Church revival of their day. |