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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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... interested people, and a jostling confusion of subpoenaed persons, briefless young barristers (forming a style on the most esteemed and truculent examples) and casual eccentric spectators who preferred this pit of iniquity to the free sunlight outside. Every one was damply hot, the examining King's Counsel wiped the perspiration from his huge, clean-shaven upper lip; and into this atmosphere of grasping contention and human exhalations the daylight filtered through a window that was manifestly dirty. The jury sat in a double pew to the left of ...
— The World Set Free • Herbert George Wells


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