Rigsdag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Rigsdag
< Danish, equivalent to rigs, genitive of rig kingdom + dag diet, assembly. Cf. Reichstag
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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 people, who still speak their old Norse dialect, although Danish is the language of the schools and law courts, are Lutherans, and enjoy a measure of self-government, and send representatives to the Danish Rigsdag.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
An ultra-conservative constitution which had been worked out by the Rigsdag in consultation with the Landtags of the duchies, was promulgated October 2, 1855.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
Dear L.,—The opening of the Rigsdag is a great event in Stockholm.
From The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
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