Both Uses of
parliament
in
A Christmas Carol
- "I wonder you don't go into Parliament."†
Chpt 1 *
- You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
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(parliament with a lowercase "p") a legislative assembly in certain countries (that can pass laws)