woolsack
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The Lord Speaker chairs daily business in the chamber from his seat on the woolsack and, like the House of Commons Speaker, is expected to be politically impartial.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 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
When at last they reached the woolsack, Earl Baldwin knelt, got up, moved to a reading desk where a clerk sonorously summoned him "to sit among the Lords of the realm."
From Time Magazine Archive
Tho' now upon the woolsack placed, With wealth, with power, with title graced, Once nearer was our lot.
From A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson
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