Constitʹuent Assembly
.The first of the national assemblies of the French Revolution; so called because it took an oath never to separate till it had given to France a constitution. (1788–1791.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.