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

The Queen’s presence chamber contains the rarest furniture and hangings, with an array of artistic works by the most celebrated masters.

From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Daphne Dale

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 Kathlyn Rhodes

On the second floor was the presence chamber, finished with carved oak wainscoting and a ceiling full of gilded pendants.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

And before many days had gone, Mary, with a full train of ladies, was brought from Hunsdon, magnificently dressed, to Whitehall, where, in the great presence chamber, Henry and his wife stood before the fire.

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

Of his, the Father’s, presence chamber, gladness and beauty stand at the threshold!

From A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook