presence chamber

English

Noun

presence chamber (plural presence chambers)

1. A room, in a royal palace, in which a monarch receives visitors.

   Synonym: presence room

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 7:

     […] so they might spend the livelong day as befitteth high holiday, in pleasure and action without care, and thereafter revel in the lofty presence chamber till night grew old with eating and drinking and all delight.