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dais
Part of speech: NounA raised platform for the chief seats in a hall.
Usage examples "dais":- Four comfortable easy chairs completed the furniture, save for the low oriental throne which stood on a dais at the end of the room. - "Beasts, Men and Gods", Ferdinand Ossendowski.
- Beside a large dais depended a huge Chinese gong. - "The Exploits of Elaine", Arthur B. Reeve.
- The carpets were of such rich and heavy texture that they gave back no sound to the foot- fall, and by an ingenious arrangement, beneath the lambrequins adorning the windows, two noiseless fan- like blinds opened or closed instantly, lighting or darkening the room as suddenly, and evidently for use during day seances, which were sometimes given; while opposite, two broad parlors led away, en suite, to a raised dais at the rear, upon which Miss Evalena Gray, assisted by Mlle. - "The Spiritualists and the Detectives", Allan Pinkerton.