Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An elevated part of the floor of a room; a raised platform or dais.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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.
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- noun A
dais or raisedplatform .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"estrade" where he stood, -- no vulgar curiosity evinced by any one, but the group continued, as before, to gather and scatter.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839
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"estrade" where he stood, -- no vulgar curiosity evinced by any one, but the group continued, as before, to gather and scatter.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 6 Charles James Lever 1839
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Three Random Words: une estrade (f) = platform le saindoux (m) = lard voguer = to drift, to wander in Characters, Kindness of strangers | Permalink
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Three Random Words: une estrade (f) = platform le saindoux (m) = lard voguer = to drift, to wander in Characters, Kindness of strangers | Permalink
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Three Random Words: une estrade (f) = platform le saindoux (m) = lard voguer = to drift, to wander in Characters, Kindness of strangers | Permalink
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Three Random Words: une estrade (f) = platform le saindoux (m) = lard voguer = to drift, to wander in Characters, Kindness of strangers | Permalink
Characters 2009
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Three Random Words: une estrade (f) = platform le saindoux (m) = lard voguer = to drift, to wander
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Its door was of Indian teak-wood inlaid with gold that glowed; and through it one passed into a royal-hall in whose midst was a jetting fount girt by a raised estrade.
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The Princess looked right and left, till she came to the upper end of the estrade, when she fixed her eyes upon the wall and gazed long and earnestly thereat; whereupon the old woman knew that her glance had lighted on the presentment of her dream and took the two waiting-women away with her, that they might not divert her mind.
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He made her no answer: so she came down from the bed on the estrade; and catching hold of his skirt laid it on her head and kissed his feet, saying, “Veil what Allah veileth!”
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