All 4 Uses of
dais
in
The Canterbury Tales
- *in every part*
Well seemed each of them a fair burgess,
To sitten in a guild-hall, on the dais.†Chpt 1.0 *dais = raised platform
- *improve
The minstrelsy, the service at the feast,
The greate giftes to the most and least,
The rich array of Theseus' palace,
Nor who sate first or last upon the dais.†Chpt 1.1
- *certain
Thus be they wedded with solemnity;
And at the feaste sat both he and she,
With other worthy folk, upon the dais.†Chpt 4.10
- This Cambuscan, of which I have you told,
In royal vesture, sat upon his dais,
With diadem, full high in his palace;
And held his feast so solemn and so rich,
That in this worlde was there none it lich.†Chpt 5.11
Definition:
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to people on it