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woolsack

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wool·sack  (wlsk)
n.
1. A sack for wool.
2. The official seat of the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords.
woolsack [ˈwʊlˌsæk]
n
1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a sack containing or intended to contain wool
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Britain) the seat of the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords, formerly made of a large square sack of wool
Translations
Woolsack [ˈwʊlsæk] N the Woolsack (Brit) (Parl) → saco m de lana(silla del Gran Canciller en la Cámara de los Lores)


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Pocket: who was also in the first bloom of youth, and not quite decided whether to mount to the Woolsack, or to roof himself in with a mitre.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
The post of honour and the post of shame, the general's station and the drummer's, a peer's statue in Westminster Abbey and a seaman's hammock in the bosom of the deep, the mitre and the workhouse, the woolsack and the gallows, the throne and the guillotine--the travellers to all are on the great high road, but it has wonderful divergencies, and only Time shall show us whither each traveller is bound.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
Such a mind has Mr Eugene Wrayburn, whom Twemlow finds contemplating Tippins with the moodiest of visages, while that playful creature rallies him on being so long overdue at the woolsack.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
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