third house

noun

, (sometimes initial capital letters)

1. a legislative lobby.

third house

noun

1. a political lobby for a special interest

Word History and Origins

Origin of third house¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

On the stage about him sat the membership of the Third House; the building itself was packed, the aisles full.

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This ring is always in alliance with the Third House, and always in market, as I learned by my brief experience.

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He is to be buried in the hill behind Third House, so he wrote me.

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And Knower, of the Third House, had put all the proceeds of engineering that last bill through, into gorgeous plate.

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