A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. sgn, Fenwick, Isabella. ins, Reed, Henry. sgn, Wordsworth Collection · Oxford, J. H. Parker · leaf 149
over so as to form a kind of canopyover their heads. (See Tyrwhitts Chaucer,4to., vol. ii. p. 404.) The French word dais literally signifies a canopy, and isused for that which is carried over theHost in processions, also for that over abed or a seat. Warton observes that it signifies a throne or… … from the French^ and^ if so^ the primitive meaning would be acanopy. The word is variously spelt by old authors^ and vari-ously used : it is applied to the chief seat at the high board,or principal table, in a baronial hall, also to the principaltable itself, and to the raised part ofthe floor on…
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