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Platform; dais
Answer for the clue "Platform; dais ", 7 letters:
estrade
Word definitions for estrade in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A dais or raised platform.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.