Definition of "hautpas" []

• A raised part of the floor of a large room; a dais or platform for a raised table or throne. (noun)

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• "a broad hautpas of four steps, advancing in the middle: at each end of the broadest part are two of my eagles, with red cushions for the parson and clerk."