Both Uses of
barrister
in
A Room of One's Own
- Or watch in the spring sunshine the stockbroker and the great barrister going indoors to make money and more money and more money when it is a fact that five hundred pounds a year will keep one alive in the sunshine.†
Chpt 2
- Is it better to be a coal-heaver or a nursemaid; is the charwoman who has brought up eight children of less value to the world than, the barrister who has made a hundred thousand pounds?†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
a lawyer who can speak in the higher courts of law in Britain, Australia, Canada and some other countries