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King's Counsel   /kɪŋz kˈaʊnsəl/   Listen
King's Counsel

noun
1.
Counsel to the Crown when the British monarch is a king.






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"King's Counsel" Quotes from Famous Books



... circle when there are wives and sisters anxious to take up the sport which palpably affords their male relatives one of the greatest enjoyments of life, and when there are husbands and brothers who, it is said, advance arguments which for number and ingenuity would do credit to a King's Counsel, designed to show the absurdity and the futility of the desire expressed. It is a question upon which it would be out of place for me here to take any side, though it seems to me that there is something to be said for the complete ...
— The Complete Golfer [1905] • Harry Vardon

... corridor, descended into the well of the Court, and looked complacently about him. Two or three cases were mentioned, the jury was sworn, and the Associate, after inquiring nonchalantly whether the King's Counsel were prepared, called on the case of Pleydell against Bladder, and sank back in his seat ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates



Words linked to "King's Counsel" :   Counsel to the Crown



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