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dais¹
- /ˈdeɪ.ɪs/ UK
- /ˈdeɪs/ UK
- /ˈdeɪəs/ US
- /ˈdaɪəs/ US
Sounds like dace (single-syllable pronunciation) · Rhymes with -eɪɪs, -eɪs, -eɪəs, -aɪəs
Where it comes from
From Middle English deis, from Anglo-Norman deis, from Old French deis, dois (modern French dais), from Latin discum, accusative singular of discus (“discus, disc, quoit; dish”) (Late Latin discum (“table”)), from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “discus, disc; tray”), from δικεῖν (dikeîn, “to cast, to throw; to strike”). Cognate with Italian desco, Occitan des. Doublet of desk, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.
noun daises · daïs · deas · deis
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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.
Many of the figures, clad in mail from head to foot, were ranged above the dais; and she could almost fancy a skeleton form beneath, or that wild and fearful eyes glared through the apertures of the closed visors.
Similar: podium
- A bench, a settle, a pew. [page 211] The Mer-man he stept o'er ae deas, / And he has steppit over three: / "O maiden, pledge me faith and troth! / O Marstig's daughter, gang wi' me!" […] [pages 213–214] Notes on The Mer-man. […] I remember having seen in the hall of the ruined castle of Elan Stalker, in the district of Appin
- An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table. As the principal table was always placed upon a dais, it began very soon, by a natural abuse of words, to be called itself a Dais, and people were said to sit at the dais, instead of at the table upon the dais.
- The canopy over an altar, etc.
Dais²
noun
- plural of Dai
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