Landtag
Americannoun
noun
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the legislative assembly of each state in present-day Germany and Austria
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the estates of principalities in medieval and modern Germany
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the assembly of numerous states in 19th-century Germany
Etymology
Origin of Landtag
Example Sentences
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Police in the German state of Bavaria will have new powers to use forensic DNA profiling after a controversial law passed today in the Landtag, the state parliament in Munich.
From Science Magazine • May 15, 2018
What he found sent him rushing to the floor of Hesse's Landtag last week to report.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meeting in the Landtag across the street from the Chancellery, the delegates created new government posts for the conservative Volkspartei.
From Time Magazine Archive
Landtag attendants were instructed to stand by such glasses of water as they might be ordered to bring, and retrieve the glasses by force if necessary.
From Time Magazine Archive
To which my man answered that, fourteen years before, when he listened to her address at the opening of the Landtag, he had been struck by the beauty and purity of her German.
From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann
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