Reichstag

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  1. 1
    The building in Berlin that houses the Bundestag of modern Germany.

    "It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen: 100 rock climbers abseiling down the facade of the Reichstag, slowly unfurling this huge silvery curtain."

  2. 2
    The lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany until 1945; the building that housed it. historical

    "Another is on the right, to turn his murder into a justification for an all-out war, a Reichstag fire for our time."

  3. 3
    The diet of the Holy Roman Empire. historical

Example

More examples

"The Bundestag, the German legislative body, meets in the Reichstag building in Berlin."

Etymology

Borrowed from German Reichstag (“imperial parliament”).

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holy roman empire

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