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Barebones Parliament
(Bare|bones Parliament)
Pronunciation:
/ˈbɛːbəʊnz/
the nickname of Cromwell’s Parliament of 1653, from one of its members, Praise-God Barbon, an Anabaptist leather seller of Fleet Street. It replaced the Rump Parliament, but was itself dissolved within a few months.
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