Lords
Upper house and lords are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Upper house" instead a noun "Lords".
Upper house
Lords and upper house are semantically related. You can use "Lords" instead a noun phrase "Upper house".
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The most common Lords version of independentsnote Some instead choose to refuse affiliation all together, or renounce it while holding special offices, and are classed as "non-affiliated" instead (see above), and account for about 20% of the members of the upper house.
- The genro established a Western-style title system, merging the Japanese nobility, which had previously been bifurcated into Imperial Court nobles (kuge) and feudal lords (daimyō), into a single class (kazoku), whose members sat as the upper house of the new Imperial Diet, the House of Peers.
Source: Useful Notes / Meiji Restoration
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