presence chamber

American  

noun

Chiefly British.

1. the special room in which a great personage, as a sovereign, receives guests, holds audiences, etc.

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presence chamber British  

noun

1. the room in which a great person, such as a monarch, receives guests, assemblies, etc

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Etymology

Origin of presence chamber

First recorded in 1555–65

Example Sentences

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presence chamber

We were taken into a kind of presence chamber, across the large courtyard, and found our friends of the morning, kow-towing to this still higher potentate.

From Afterwards by Rhodes, Kathlyn

Jane’s body, embalmed, lay in the presence chamber at Hampton Court for a week.

From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp

So De Montfort vanished from the presence chamber, and the king grasped Fitz-Osborne's arm, and together they paced the room in earnest conversation.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John

This valley of the black 'Tshermosh'," he bluntly declared, "must be Old Nick's own presence chamber, and what human creatures are to be found here, are a pack of senseless knaves.

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil

Yet one might as properly entertain every passing vagary in the presence chamber of his memory as every vagrant visitor seeking his acquaintance.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson