貴き族ぞく院いん

noun

House of Peers (Japan, Meiji constitution)

Historical term for the upper house of the Imperial Diet under the Meiji Constitution (1890–1947).

• 貴き族ぞく院いんは明めい治じ憲けん法ぽう下かで設せっ置ちされた議ぎ院いんの一ひとつです。

  The House of Peers was one of the chambers established under the Meiji Constitution.

noun

House of Lords (UK)

Refers specifically to the upper house of the UK Parliament.

• イギリスの貴き族ぞく院いんは、かつて世せ襲しゅう貴き族ぞくが多た数すうを占しめていた。

  The UK House of Lords was once dominated by hereditary peers.