Parliament
WordNet
noun
(1) A card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
(2) A legislative assembly in certain countries
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Etymology
From and its sources, and , from .
Noun
- Institution whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day and usually to exercise legislative powers and sometimes judicial powers.
- The collective noun for a group of rooks or owls.
- Parliament cake; a type of gingerbread.
- 1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, Chapter II:
- A certain boy leaning up against me would not allow my elbow room, and struck me very sadly in the stomach part, though his own was full of my parliament.
- 1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, Chapter II: