All 10 Uses

dais
in
The Demolished Man
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Flushed and shining with perspiration, standing in the glare of a pink light on the dais between the two fountains, Maria clapped her hands for silence.†
Chpt 4 *

dais = raised platform
The dais still blazed, and in the light, Maria produced a tattered volume.†
Chpt 4
As the last light on the dais melted away, Maria stripped off her gown and displayed the astonishing nude body that was a miracle of pneumatic surgery.†
Chpt 4
Mary brought the girl downstairs and seated her on the low dais.†
Chpt 10
Instantly she whipped upright on the dais in a listening attitude, and he probed delicately...Sensation of bedclothes...Voice calling dimly...Whose voice, Barbara?†
Chpt 10
Powell wiped perspiration from his face and took the girl back to the dais.†
Chpt 10
Again she whipped upright on the dais in a listening attitude.†
Chpt 10
Mary raised the girl and led her to the dais.†
Chpt 10
In the main hall of Beaumont House, a pneumatic model of Maria Beaumont slowly climbed to a dais with a tiny book in her hands.†
Chpt 13
Once again Maria Beaumont read the rules of the Sardine game from the dais in the main hall of Beaumont House.†
Chpt 13

Definitions:

(1) (dais)
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to people on it
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)