woolsack

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She will chair her first session from the woolsack on 5 September.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2011

Baroness Hayman chairs debates in the Upper Chamber from the traditional woolsack, offers advice on procedural matters and acts as ambassador for the work of the House.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2011

At Wembley, he should sit on a woolsack.

From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010

The British, whose Lord Chancellor sits on a woolsack and whose woollens clothe some of the world's better-tailored figures, have been doing some basic thinking about clothes moths.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Eldon's Memoirs, about the very same time, I read that the Bar loved wine, as well as the woolsack.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George