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court of inquiry

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court of inquiry
n. pl. courts of inquiry
A military court that inquires into and reports on questionable actions involving military personnel or property.
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court of inquiry court [courts of inquiry , pl ] nUntersuchungskommission f

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If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office, I would seek it in the common experience of an Englishman, without presuming to mention the unimportant fact of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea.
She figured him sternly weighing instances of her levity in this masculine court of inquiry into feminine morality and gruffly dismissing both her and her family with some half-sarcastic, half-tolerant phrase which sealed her doom, as far as he was concerned, for ever.
 
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