单词 | haut-pas |
释义 | haut-pasn. A part of the floor of a hall, etc., raised one or more steps above the level of the rest; a dais: = half-pace n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > floor > [noun] > raised floor or platform daisc1290 haut-pas1460 halpace1507 hath pacea1661 half-pace- 1460 Will of Thomas Burgate (Guildhall Libr. MS 9171/5) f. 307 The hautepase that y made for the maidens & women seruents to pray for my soule. a1483 Earl Rivers Let. in J. Gairdner Hist. Life Richard III (1878) App. B. 395 That the steyres of my h [a] ught passe schulbe vj fote. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxvii. f. 60 A haulte pase..at the ende of the Theatre, where the emperour shoulde sytte in his maiestie. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxvv There was made from the West doore to the quere doore of the churche egall with the highest step, a hautepace of tymber of .xii, fote broade, that the kyng and the Ambassadors might be sene. 1670 F. Sandford Order Funeral Duke of Albemarle sig. A/2 At the upper end upon a Haute-pass, a Bed of State of Black Velvet was placed. 1735 in Etoniana (1865) x. 157 The..hall was fitted with a haut-pas at the upper end, and a chair of state upon it. 1761 T. Gray Let. 24 Sept. in Corr. (1971) II. 753 Below the steps of the haut-pas were the tables of the nobility. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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