dais

noun4

1. •
   A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from.

   • 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. — 1974
2. •
   (UK, historical) A bench, a settle, a pew.

   • DAIS, Dess, Deas […] A long board, seat or bench erected against a wall. […] A pew in a church — 1808
3. •
   The canopy over an altar, etc.
4. •
   (no longer used) An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table.