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nouna card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
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nouna legislative assembly in certain countries
Definition that contains parliament
- move propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting
- floor the parliamentary right to address an assembly
- james the first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and he succeeded Elizabeth I; he alienated the British Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)
- robert United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
- anne Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
- spain a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power
- jackson English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936)
- edward son of Edward II and King of England from 1327-1377; his claim to the French throne provoked the Hundred Years' War; his reign was marked by an epidemic of the Black Plague and by the emergence of the House of Commons as the powerful arm of British Parliament (1312-1377)
- procedure a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
- burke British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)