An apartment appropriated to the meetings of a council; the place of consultation.
1530. Palsgr., 208/1. Counsell chambre, chambre de parlement.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, lxxxiii. 254. The barons … went out of the counsell chambre.
1665. Pepys, Diary (1879), III. 153. Thence … to White Hall to the Council-chamber.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), I. 596. Irreverent methodism … rushes with saucy familiarity into the council-chamber of heaven.
1886. Morley, Pattison’s Mem., Crit. Misc. III. 160. Those who … fought in literature, in the council-chamber, in the field, against the Church revival of their day.
