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plural hustings
A platform where candidates in an election give speeches; a husting. quotations examples
I now mounted the hustings, and, without any regard to decency or modesty, made as emphatical a speech in favour of the king as before I had done against him.
1749, Henry Fielding, From This World to the Next
(by extension) An election campaign. quotations examples
Health secretary Matt Hancock was booed and heckled at a general election hustings in his constituency after he launched an attack on Jeremy Corbyn over his handling of antisemitism.
2019 November 30, Eleanor Busby, “Matt Hancock booed and heckled by crowd as hustings descends into chaos”, in The Independent
plural of husting examples