dais
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 u
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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.
Babbitt's party politely edged through them and into the whitewashed room, at the front of which was a dais with a red-plush throne and a pine altar painted watery blue, as used nightly by the Grand Masters and Supreme Potentates of innu…
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(historical, northern, _, Britain) A bench, a settle, a pew.
A dais wife is a woman who sits at a round table with the wives of other men who are seated on the dais. Her husband sits on the dais, raised above the other people in the room, including his wife.
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(obsolete) An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table.
The daises of the Northwest Colonnade and the South Temple of the Warriors, the Mercado benches, and the benches of the Southeast Patio of the Iglesia are other instances where large groups of individuals in processions are shown.
“3:28 AM "Affordable Decorating" by 𝐀𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐓. from 𝐾𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑘 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑏𝑦𝑒 (Dais Records) #nowplaying”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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