parliamentaries
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- 1Plural of parliamentary, an old British train that by law cost a penny a mile.
The parliamentaries stopped at every small station on the line.
Workers rode the parliamentaries because the fare was only a penny a mile.
Note
parliamentaries is a form of parliamentary
parliamentary, noun: An old British train that, by law, ran both ways on a line every day for a penny a mile. Full entry
- Forms
- parliamentaryparliamentaries plural
- Spelling
- parliamentary → parliamentaries: change y to i, add -es
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