Crossword clues for estrade
estrade
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Estrade \Es`trade"\ ([asl]s`tr[.a]d"), n. [F., fr. Sp. estrado, orig., a carpet on the floor of a room, also, a carpeted platform, fr. L. stratum bed covering. See Stratum.] (Arch.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais.
He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a
mounted estrade or platform.
--J. G. Fitch.
[1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. A dais or raised platform.
Usage examples of "estrade".
Marie en Lili Verstraeten, uit de kamer komende, waar de estrade was opgeslagen: een geheimzinnige verhevenheid, als uitgewischt in een halfduister.
As all commendable diligence was used by the officers of the peace to make way for the bailiff, Herr Hofmeister and his companions were soon in their allotted stations, which, it is scarcely necessary to repeat, were the upper places on the estrade.
Paul was van zijn trap afgeklommen, had het groote witte kruis, waaronder hij bijkans bezweek, op de estrade geplaatst en vlijde de matras en tal van kussens aan het voetstuk.
There were quaintly turned estrades, pillared with slim and antic trees, latticed with the drolly peering faces of extravagant orchids, that led the seeker to hidden, surprising bowers of goblinry.