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Definition of hustings

noun (plural same)

a meeting at which candidates in an election address potential voters: he could hold his own in an election hustings Mrs Jones organized two public hustings
(the hustings) the campaigning associated with an election:I was out on the hustings, talking to people

Origin:

late Old English husting 'deliberative assembly, council', from Old Norse hústhing 'household assembly held by a leader', from hús 'house' + thing 'assembly, parliament'; hustings was applied in Middle English to the highest court of the City of London, presided over by the Recorder of London. Subsequently it denoted the platform in Guildhall where the Lord Mayor and aldermen presided, and (early 18th century) a temporary platform on which parliamentary candidates were nominated; hence the sense 'electoral proceedings'

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