estrade

[Fr., from Lat.stratum.] A slightly raised platform, occupying a part of a room. It may form a dais. *es-trad-1-ot, s . [Ital. stradiotti ; Gr.stratiōtēs = a soldier.] An Albanian soldier, a dragoon or light horseman employed in the French armies in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. "Accompanied with cro e-bowe men on horsebacke, estradiots, and footmen."- Comines , by Danet , Ff. 3. IMG:content-1153.png:[blocks in formation] 4. To alienate, as the affections; turn from ill-will. "Every acquisition which they made on the Continent estranged them more and more from the population of our island."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. i. *es-trān ge, *es-traunge, a. [O. Fr. estrange; Fr. étrange ; Ital. estraneo; Port. estranho.] [EsTRANGE, v .] 1. Foreign; belonging to another nation or country. 2. Strange, unfamiliar, reserved. ěs-trānged, pa.par . or a . [ESTRANGE, v .]