All 7 Uses

dais
in
Queen of Attolia
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Her ministers collected around her, following as she led down the three shallow steps through the doorway and across the painted floor to the dais.†
Chpt 2 *

dais = raised platform
She stepped down from the dais to stand before Eugenides.†
Chpt 2
He stopped pacing abruptly and turned his back on his queen in order to sit on the dais at her feet.†
Chpt 11
IN EPHRATA, ATTOLIA SAT RELAXED on the large chair on the dais that served as her throne when she was in residence.†
Chpt 14
"I've been practicing," he responded, and after supper, when the tables had been removed and the music was beginning, he obediently stepped to the dais at the head of the room and offered his hand for the first dance.†
Chpt 20
He returned her to the dais at the end of the dance feeling as if he were replacing a manikin on its pedestal.†
Chpt 20
Eugenides continued up the steps to the dais and took her hand.†
Chpt 20

Definitions:

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