All 3 Uses of
dais
in
Arrowsmith
- Clinging to the soaring wall, above the dais on which lunched the Director and the seven heads of departments, was a carved musicians'—gallery.†
Chpt 26 *dais = raised platform
- The staff sat in Hall at two long tables, one on the dais, one below: tiny insect groups under the massy ceiling.†
Chpt 26
- He was shy before the spectacled gravity of the five Trustees as they sat, like a Supreme Court, at the dais table in Bonanza Hall— Gottlieb a little removed, also trying to look grave and supreme.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to people on it