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Estrade

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Es`trade´    (ãs`tråd´)
n.1.(Arch.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais.
He [the teacher] himself should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform.
- J. G. Fitch.
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Reuter had already glided away, she was nowhere visible; a maitresse or teacher, the one who occupied the corresponding estrade to my own, alone remained to keep guard over me; she was a little in the shade, and, with my short sight, I could only see that she was of a thin bony figure and rather tallowy complexion, and that her attitude, as she sat, partook equally of listlessness and affectation.
The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
All eyes turned to the estrade reserved for the Flemish envoys.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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