| 单词 | painted chamber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPainted Chamber Painted Chamber n. [after Anglo-Norman Chaumbre Peynte, Chaumbre de Peynte (14th cent.)] a chamber in the old Palace of Westminster in London (destroyed by fire in 1834), whose walls were decorated with a series of battle scenes and in which from 1339 Parliament often assembled, or (occasionally) the sovereign met the two Houses of Parliament (now historical); any of various similarly decorated chambers in other palaces, halls, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > place of Painted Chamberc1543 parliament1547 c1543 in J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. (1859) III. 79 The parlement chambre & paynted chambre. 1654 (title) Speeches of His Highnesse the Lord Protector to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber. 1724 J. Swift Drapier's Let. VII in Wks. (1735) IV. 227 The painted Chamber, and Court of Requests,..are never so nobly filled, as when an Irish Appeal is under Debate. 1872 Appletons' Jrnl. 6 July 4/1 The other passages leading away from what he calls the ‘painted chamber’, were narrow and uninvitin'. 1990 M. Vale Angevin Legacy & 100 Year War (BNC) The representations of the Triumphant Virtues and Vices..in the Painted Chamber at Westminster. 1998 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 7 July 14 An even rarer survival is the mediaeval wall painting in the Painted Chamber of the Abbot's Lodging [in Cleeve Abbey]. < as lemmas |
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