house of burgesses

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   the lower house of legislature in colonial Virginia

   Broaderhouse

Questions about house of burgesses

What does house of burgesses mean?

house of burgesses means "the lower house of legislature in colonial Virginia".

Is house of burgesses a common word?

house of burgesses is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.