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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The Star Chamber was the former English court noted for its severity, and latterly, any such tribunal particularly if it is unjust and arbitrary in its judgements. I can find only two examples, and while it may be no more than a malapropism, by squinting my eyes up and looking at the term sideways I can imbue it with starchy notions of being rigid, hard, fixed or stiff…
... and little room with one of the bedsteads, bedding and other furniture belonging, standing in the “Starch chamber”, [did the scribe mean Star Chamber? ...
www.geocities.com/heartland/fields/1759 … ol3.88.htm – 6k – Cached
109 allows secret starch chamber courts to issue contemp charges against any individual or corporation who refuses to incriminate themselves or others. ...
malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070920200850AAI4QnX – 130k – Cached
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