Mother of Parliaments

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the Mother of Parliaments the British Parliament: the model and creator of many other Parliaments

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Word Origin for Mother of Parliaments

C19: first used of England in 1865 by John Bright (1811–89), British Liberal statesman

Words nearby Mother of Parliaments

mother-naked, Mother Nature, mother of, mother of coal, Mother of God, Mother of Parliaments, mother-of-pearl, mother-of-pearl moth, Mother of Satan, mother of the chapel, mother-of-thousands

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How to use Mother of Parliaments in a sentence

Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
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Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
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But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.
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I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.
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Meanwhile two kids were taken from their mother when she flew back to the UK from Turkey.
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There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.
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"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
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Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
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The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.
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The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”
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