husting

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A platform where candidates in an election give speeches.
  2. An assembly, especially one of the retainers of a ruler. historical
    — In the Anglo-Norman period we hear of a sale of land taking place ‘in the presence of the whole husting of London, in the House of Alfwin son of Leofstan’ and of land deraigned ‘by judgment of the husting’.

词形变化

hustings plural

词汇关系

相关词
hustings thing folkmoot

词源

From Middle English husting, from Old English hūsting, borrowed from Old Norse húsþing (“house assembly”), from hús (“house”) + þing (“council, meeting”), equivalent to house + thing. Cognate with Icelandic húsþing (“assembly”).
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