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Rotten borough   /rˈɑtən bˈərˌoʊ/   Listen
Rotten borough

noun
1.
An English parliamentary constituency with few electors.





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"Rotten borough" Quotes from Famous Books



... municipality of Sancerre, distressed at finding itself practically ruled by seven or eight large landowners, the wire-pullers of the elections, tried to shake off the electoral yoke of a creed which had reduced it to a rotten borough. This little conspiracy, plotted by a handful of men whose vanity was provoked, failed through the jealousy which the elevation of one of them, as the inevitable result, roused in the breasts of the others. This result showed the ...
— The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac


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