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"Raised speaker platform"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (DAIS).
Definitions
a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
Word origin
From Middle English deis, from Anglo-Norman deis, from Old French deis, dois (modern French dais), from Latin discum, accusative singular of discus (“discus, disc, quoit; dish”) (Late Latin discum (“table”)), from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “discus, disc; tray”), from δικεῖν (dikeîn, “to cast, to throw; to strike”). Cognate with Italian desco, Occitan des. Doublet of desk, disc, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.
Used in a sentence
“Many of the figures, clad in mail from head to foot, were ranged above the dais; and she could almost fancy a skeleton form beneath, or that wild and fearful eyes glared through the apertures of the closed visors.”
“A dais wife is a woman who sits at a round table with the wives of other men who are seated on the dais. Her husband sits on the dais, raised above the other people in the room, including his wife.”
“DAIS, Dess, Deas […] A long board, seat or bench erected against a wall. […] A pew in a church”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Raised speaker platform”4 letters
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