A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.
1 The King took his place on the dais and watched the dancing.
2 In the centre of the dais stood a third chair- acrimsonone-empty
3 There on the raised dais sate the sovereign of half the world.
4 The duke left the hall by a small door near the dais .
5 On a dais in the Great Hall were now four golden thrones.
6 Now all eyes were on the dais and the door behind it.
7 For a conference, drinks and cigarettes on the dais are a given.
8 She ran toward the dais , but a soldier stepped in her way.
9 She gasped on a dais - it was the hottest week of the year.
10 The King turned away and Merlin followed him to the upraised dais .
11 I strode forward to stand at the base of the raised dais .
12 It was intractably pinned below the command dais , refusing to budge free.
13 Across the further end of the hall a dais had been erected.
14 The immense Gothic bed stood on its dais , imposing in its isolation.
15 Three additional, wider steps led from this platform to the throne dais .
16 The king sat at the head of his hall, upon a dais .
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