segocia
n.— «It’s no longer the place where safely returned deputies spend their days, cracking jokes with old segocias before shuffling once more into the back benches for the start of the new Dail.» —“Politicians living in terror of real change” by Dick Walsh Irish Times Dec. 5, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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