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ladies' gallery

  1. a gallery in the old House of Commons set aside for women spectators
  2. a portion of the strangers' gallery of the new House of Commons similarly reserved


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The ladies gallery was crowded to excess, and the fair ones overflowed into the anteroom of the Senate.

The Ladies Gallery was full, for the matter was in all the papers, and a pretty sensation had been worked up one way and another.

Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the ladies gallery was filled to overflowing.

It fills the narrow side of the house, and is just below the ladies gallery and above the Speakers chair.

Annabel was then quite ready to leave, and the question of the Ladies Gallery came up for settlement.

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