witness box

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witness box

noun witness boxes

  1. UK A witness stand in a courtroom. The same dingy court room, […]; the royal arms above it [the bench] and the little witness box to one side, where so many honest poor people are bullied

    Similar: witness stand

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noun place where a witness gives evidence in a courtroom

Españolestrado
中文證人席 /证人席 zhèngrénxí
हिन्दीकठघरा kaṭhaghrā, कटघरा kaṭaghrā
DeutschZeugenstand, Zeugenbank

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@misc{witness_box_2026,
  title = {witness box},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/witness%20box},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}