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What is a dais?

What is a dais? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. [from c. 1800.]
  2. (historical, northern Britain) A bench, a settle, a pew.
  3. (obsolete) An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table. [13th–17th c.]
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Martin stood on the dais where the lectern usually sat, a low brazier to either side.
The sultan escorted the prince, wearing a gold crown, to a golden chair on the dais.
The king sat upon a dais and Lione stood before him and told the story of the crimes the Brotherhood had committed.
The royal family ate on the dais, along with the high priests and priestesses.
The warning didn't register with one windbag, and the committee members signaled the emcee to gavel the person off the dais.
Were they not inhibited Anglo-Saxons and had he been in their midst rather than standing on a raised dais, they would have assuredly hugged him.

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