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lobbies |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lobby \Lob"by\, n.; pl {Lobbies}. [LL. lobium, lobia, laubia, a covered portico fit for walking, fr OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor. See {Lodge}.] 1. (Arch.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved. 2. That part of a hall of legislation not appropriated to the official use of the assembly; hence the persons, collectively, who frequent such a place to transact business with the legislators; any persons, not members of a legislative body, who strive to influence its proceedings by personal agency
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