woolsack
Example Sentences
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The Lord Speaker chairs daily business in the chamber from his seat on the woolsack and, like the House of Commons Speaker, is expected to be politically impartial.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
She will chair her first session from the woolsack on 5 September.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2011
At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010
Her father, who told her macabre fairy stories and took her to prize fights, encouraged her "to be cheeky before solemn statesmen," allowed her to bounce up & down on the lord chancellor's woolsack.
From Time Magazine Archive
We mean the woolsack, on which sits the Lord Chancellor Chelmsford.
From Here and There in London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
