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third house

noun

, (sometimes initial capital letters)
  1. a legislative lobby.


third house

noun

  1. a political lobby for a special interest


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Word History and Origins

Origin of third house1

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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