All 5 Uses of
dais
in
A Wrinkle in Time
- It was completely empty except for the pulse, which seemed a tangible thing, and a round dais exactly in the center.
p. 174.3dais = raised platform
- On the dais lay—what?
p. 174.4
- As she continued to step slowly forward, at last she realized what the Thing on the dais was.
p. 174.8
- She knew that her own puny little brain was no match for this great, bodiless, pulsing, writhing mass on the round dais.
p. 177.8
- There was the brain, there was IT, lying pulsing and quivering on the dais, soft and exposed and nauseating.
p. 227.2 *
Definition:
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to people on it