portcullis
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Tidball wants to show me a change that has already been made in the newer Portcullis House - an accessible door.
From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025
“Of course,” he said in an interview this week in Portcullis House, the parliamentary office building across the street from Big Ben.
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2024
All of this happened on the floor of Portcullis House, the glass-roofed space full of fig trees and coffee tables.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2019
Shah remembered a joyful meeting in Portcullis House with Cox and Stephen Kinnock, another 2015 parliamentary newcomer.
From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2016
Portcullis, a strong grating resembling a harrow hanging over the gateway of a fortress, let down in a groove of the wall in the case of a surprise.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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