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Grammar : Noun

Définition of upper house

noun small and less representative legislature

Example sentences :

Mr. Gladstone talks of an Upper House, with a £20 qualification.
Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)

The matter was then referred to the Upper House for its concurrence.
Extract from : « The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 » by John Charles Dent

Addington demurred to Pitt's request that he should retire to the Upper House.
Extract from : « William Pitt and the Great War » by John Holland Rose

The bill, however, was not safe when it had reached the Upper House.
Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay

The upper house can only be approached by means of steps cut in the rock.
Extract from : « The Prehistoric World » by E. A. Allen

It will give me no trouble, for, as the respectable Buggins says, we're in the Upper House now.
Extract from : « Framley Parsonage » by Anthony Trollope

The Bishops were restored to their seats in the Upper House.
Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay

To-morrow, when the King had come, and the Upper House was sitting.
Extract from : « It Might Have Been » by Emily Sarah Holt

In 1897 the emperor appointed him a member of the upper house.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 5 » by Various

The Upper House of Convocation: from a broadside, dated 1623.
Extract from : « A Student's History of England, v. 2 (of 3) » by Samuel R. Gardiner.

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