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Brewer's: Dais
The raised floor at the head of a dining-room, designed for guests of distinction (French, dais, a canopy). So called because it used to be decorated with a canopy. The proverb “Sous le dais” means “in the midst of grandeur.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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