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Lincoln's Inn

British  

noun

  1. one of the four legal societies in London which together form the Inns of Court

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The youngest tenant, Kitty Wood, worked as a solicitor's clerk in Lincoln's Inn.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2022

They would walk from Lincoln’s Inn Fields, down toward the Strand and Trafalgar Square, and finish at the Treasury, where participants would make speeches and lie down for a fifteen-minute symbolic die-in.

From The New Yorker Sep. 10, 2019

In 18th-century London, gay men were regularly arrested in the Lincoln’s Inn bog house, on the east side of New Square, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2019

As a member of a Harvard social club called Lincoln’s Inn Society, Gorsuch met a classmate named Phil Berg, sparking a friendship that has lasted 30 years.

From Washington Post Feb. 18, 2017

I had spent the day wearily over books, and, simply to keep my mind occupied, went over some of the matters I had been examining at Lincoln’s Inn.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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