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Red Chamber 
1 the chamber in the Parliament Buildings where the Senate convenes.
See also: Green Chamber Senate Chamber
- 1905 The innocent hawbuck who imagines that the red chamber is full of dignity and high thoughts has never listened to the debates from the galleries, for the ultra-prudish newspapers suppress the graphic and staggering parts of the debate which create the atmosphere.
- 1966 The House of Commons is sometimes called the Green Chamber and the Senate the Red Chamber because the carpet, the leather chair bottoms, and the desk blotters are all green, whereas in the Senate they are red.
2 the Senate (def. 1) itself.
See also: Senate (def. 1)
- 1955 Canada's first woman senator is Mrs. Norman F. Wilson, who shattered a fifty-year-old tradition that had preserved the Red Chamber as an exclusively men's club when she stepped over the threshold in 1930.
- 1958 Senator Gladstone is a quiet, intelligent, educated man who has run the gamut from printer to rancher and ultimately a member of the Red Chamber in his 71 years of life.
- 1965 . . . Mr. Pearson . . . could make no better beginning than to appoint to the Red Chamber 12 such Canadians.
- 1905 The innocent hawbuck who imagines that the red chamber is full of dignity and high thoughts has never listened to the debates from the galleries, for the ultra-prudish newspapers suppress the graphic and staggering parts of the debate which create the atmosphere.