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lower house
Politics one of the two houses of a bicameral legislature: usually the larger and more representative house
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I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.
In the lower House were certain bedaubed walls, in the basest style of imitation, which made him feel faintly sick, not to speak of a lobby adorned with artless prints and photographs of eminent defunct Congressmen that was all too serious for a joke and too comic for a Valhalla.
The Moroccan delegation includes members of the Upper and Lower houses, said a statement of the Lower House.
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