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lits de justice

lits de justice is the plural of lit de justice.

Meaning of lit de justice

Noun

lit de justice (plural lits de justice)

  1. A special parliamentary session headed by the king in pre-Revolutionary France, where royal edicts could be forcibly registered.
    • They would then be officially registered by edicts of the King in that special process, the lit de justice (which could also be used to enforce edicts that the Parlement resisted).2001, Antonia Fraser, Marie Antoinette

Questions about lits de justice

What is lits de justice the plural of?
Lits de justice is the plural of lit de justice.

Words near lits de justice in the dictionary

  1. litreol
  2. litres
  3. litro
  4. litRPG
  5. lits
  6. lits de justice
  7. litster
  8. litsters
  9. Litt
  10. Litt.D.
  11. litted

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