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Faneuil Hall

noun

  1. a market house and public hall in Boston, Massachusetts, called “the Cradle of Liberty” because it was used as a meeting place by American patriots immediately before the Revolutionary War.


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On April 12, 2006, at a Faneuil Hall ceremony, Romney signed the bill into law.

(p. 429) I gave him information upon the subject, and spoke of Mr. Everett, who made a speech at the meeting in Faneuil Hall.

A temporary shelter, however, in Faneuil Hall was permitted to one regiment that was without camp equipage.

I held the same opinions in 1820, at the meeting in Faneuil Hall, to which the gentleman has alluded.

Shall that tongue be silenced; tied in Faneuil Hall; torn out by a Slave-hunter?

At nine o'clock the bells were rung, and the people, to the number of at least five thousand, thronged in and around Faneuil Hall.

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