[a. F. estrade fem., ad. Sp. estrado masc.: see ESTRADO.] A slightly raised platform; a dais.
1696–1706. Phillips, Estrade the one half of an Alcove or Chamber rais’d with Boards and rail’d in, more richly furnish’d and adorn’d for the reception of Persons of Quality.
1718. Ozell, Tournefort’s Voy., I. 372. On the Estrade is spread but one carpet for the officers to sit upon.
1851. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., I. 208. Upon the highest step of the estrade.
1866. Mrs. H. Wood, Elster’s Folly, I. 227. He was standing on the sort of estrade which abutted on the river.
1880. J. G. Fitch, Lect. Teaching, 69. The teacher … should have his desk on a mounted estrade or platform.
