Rigsdag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Rigsdag
< Danish, equivalent to rigs, genitive of rig kingdom + dag diet, assembly. Cf. Reichstag
Example Sentences
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Inger Merete Nordentoft, Communist member of the Rigsdag, principal of a large school, and spinster, applied for three months' maternity leave.
From Time Magazine Archive
Altogether the six anti-Nazi parties obtained 1,941,600 votes, almost 400,000 more than they got in 1939, and increased their seats in the powerless Rigsdag lower house from 137 to 143.
From Time Magazine Archive
The women voted for the first time at a general election in 1918 and nine, representing all parties, were elected to the Rigsdag, five to the Upper and four to the Lower House.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Harper, Ida Husted
Later in the year, however, the premier Hall proposed and carried through the Rigsdag a constitution which contemplated again the incorporation of Schleswig with the kingdom.
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
Rigsdag is composed of two chambers—the Landsthing, or Senate, and the Folkething, or House of Representatives.
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
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