woolsack

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A Royal Commission, made up of five peers appointed by the King, take their places on the woolsack dressed in red ermine robes and black and two-pointed, bicorner hats.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

At the end of her final day on the woolsack on Wednesday there was a break with usual Lords etiquette as she was cheered and clapped as business for the day ended.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2011

At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010

Seated on the woolsack in his best robes and formal full-bottomed wig, Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham and Lord High Chancellor, commanded Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, Clerk of the Parliaments, to call the roll.

From Time Magazine Archive

If he 'd have gone to the bar, he'd have ended on the woolsack.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James