Usage examples for dais:

• But there was an awkward moment when Nesimir, pale and shaken, entered the chamber through the folding doors at the back of the presidential dais "A Son of the Immortals" – Louis Tracy

• The throne was elevated on a dais of silver steps. "The Great Mogul" – Louis Tracy

• Now if a man can only be allowed to stand on a dais or raised platform, and look down on his neighbor who is exerting his talent for him, oh, it is all right! "The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr." – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

• She gave the slightest little shrug of her shoulders; then went and sat on the highest step of the familiar dais where she had posed for her picture, and waited a moment. "Innocent Her Fancy and His Fact" – Marie Corelli