1811: husting Nov 30, 2019

The word 'hustings' may be regional, but it is one of the fewer words in English related to politics and law that is purely Germanic. Its original meaning was 'assembly', namely of a 'house' as in "house of commons". Indeed, the term comes from the Old Norse, 'hús + thing' or literally 'house-thing'. This was once the name of the highest court of the City of London, but now can denote any type of electoral precedings, such as a political debate.

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