legislative hall

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But critics deemed that no less offensive, and many saw it as an insult hurled in the legislative hall at a member of Parliament.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022

They have congregated singing in a legislative hall to discuss concerns over Medicaid changes, and access to employment for disabled persons.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2018

Then, before a vast crowd of officials, clerks, laborers, housewives and children, Nehru troweled mortar from a silver bowl and set the cornerstone for a gigantic, tower-topped legislative hall.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sweet southern breeze stirred a few solitary pines which waved on the capitol hill, and the scene from the windows of the legislative hall was pleasant, tranquil, and suggestive of calm but sluggish peace.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 Volume 1, Number 4 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

Lobby, lob′i, n. a small hall or waiting-room: a passage serving as a common entrance to several apartments: the ante-chamber of a legislative hall, frequented by outsiders for the purpose of influencing votes.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various