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dais

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The high or principal table, at the end of a hall, at which the chief guests were seated; also, the chief seat at the high table.

A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests.

A canopy over the seat of a person of dignity.

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At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, walls of James Patterson thrillers, and a throne from about a thousand copies of something called. Rick Riordan

Alexander and Binski, pp. 506–7 and 515. Only six of the statues remain, rather damaged, and the dais has been remodelled, but otherwise the hall remains largely as Richard and his architect Henry Yevele left it. Source: Internet

A second pro-democracy MP was ejected for yelling after the meeting resumed, and then a third after rushing forward with a large plastic bottle in a cloth bag that spilled its brownish contents on the floor in front of the president’s raised dais. Source: Internet

At the front, or eastern end of the church, is a raised dais with an icon-covered screen or wall ( iconostasis or templon ) separating the nave from the sanctuary. Source: Internet

During one of his turns at the dais, Sekulow waved a copy of the hefty Mueller report in the air as he complained that the special counsel probe had wasted $32 million to uncover no evidence of collusion between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia. Source: Internet

Confined to a marble fireplace flanked by a dais and a landing, each with its own tall window that looks out on Dickensian London’s darkened silhouette, Rebekah Johnson’s modest but cozy set is marred by similar troubles on the video end. Source: Internet

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