Brewer's: Gilded Chamber

(The). The House of Lords.

“Mr. Rowland Winn is now Lord St. Oswald, and after years spent in the Lower House he has retired to the calm of the gilded chamber.” —Newspaper paragraph, June 26th, 1885.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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