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LOBBY , a See also:corridor or passage, also any apartment serving as an ante-See also:room, waiting room or entrance See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall in a See also:building. The Med. See also:Lat. lobia, laubia or lobium, from which the word was directly adapted, was used in the sense of a See also:cloister, See also:gallery or covered See also:place for walking attached to a See also:house, as defined by Du Cange (See also:Gloss. Med. et Inf. Lat., s.v. Lobia), porticus operta ad spatiandum idonea, aedibus adjuncta. The See also:French See also:form of lobia was loge, cf. Ital. loggia, and this gave the Eng. " See also:lodge," which is thus a doublet of " lobby." The ultimate derivation is given under LODGE. Other See also:familiar uses of the See also:term "lobby" are its application (I) to the entrance hall of a See also:parliament house, and (2) to the two corridors known as " See also:division-lobbies," into which the members of the House of See also:Commons and other legislative bodies pass on a division, their votes being recorded according to which "lobby," "aye" or "no," they enter. The entrance lobby to a legislative building is open to the public, and thus is a convenient place for interviews between members and their constituents or with representatives of public bodies, associations and interests, and the See also:press. The See also:influence and pressure thus brought to See also:bear upon members of legislative bodies has given rise to the use of "to lobby," "See also:lobbying," "lobbyist," &c., with this See also:special significance. The practice, though not unknown in the See also:British parliament, is most prevalent in the See also:United States of See also:America, where the use of the term first arose (see below).
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