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dais
/ˈdeɪəs/
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What does dais mean?
noun
- A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.
- The canopy over an altar, etc.
- plural of Dai
More meanings (2)
noun
- (historical) A bench, a settle, a pew.
- (obsolete) An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdeɪəs/
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At the head of the hall, on a dais, was the table of the king, queen, and their son, Prince Uwaine.
There then in the great hall of his father's house stood Christopher the King on the dais, and Goldilind beside him.
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In the centre of the kind of theatre thus railed off, was a canopied dais with the Pope’s chair upon it.
Brilliant cloths of many hues and strange patterns formed the soft cushion covering of the dais upon which they reclined about her.
It was a long chamber with a step separating the dais where the family sat from the lower portion reserved for their dependents.