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  • noun Plural form of dais.

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Examples

  • The psychiatrists got so used to seeing "daises," - when they saw something else, they sometimes couldn't recognize it, she said.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • She threw the white daises out yesterday, having trimmed the stems and replaced the water until they fit in an applesauce jar.

    Flatscreen Ames John Gigounas 2011

  • The leaders at the daises looked at each other without a comment.

    Joel John Roberts: Affordable Housing: An Oxymoron? Joel John Roberts 2011

  • He watched her walking among their small flowerbeds, picking here and there a weed, gazing down at Michaelmas daises that yesterday hadn't been in bloom.

    William Trevor | An Idyll in Winter 2011

  • New matched daises have been built and upholstered measuring 16 feet by 10 feet.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • The leaders at the daises looked at each other without a comment.

    Joel John Roberts: Affordable Housing: An Oxymoron? Joel John Roberts 2011

  • New matched daises have been built and upholstered measuring 16 feet by 10 feet.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  •                Her eyes watered the daffodils, and daises.

    A D O N I S 2010

  • If only the Jewish state would listen to his recurring advice, manna would again rain from the heavens, the dead would be resurrected, and the Arabs would welcome Israel with daises and lilies.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Tom Friedman Slanders Israel 2010

  • Palin, who quit the only job she'd ever had that might have given her credibility as a national political figure, in order to dance the Tea Party hootchie-cootchie on saloon tables and trade association daises across the land (for money), is now bitching about her privacy.

    Ellis Weiner: The Stupidity of Sarah Palin, Part 32,459 2010

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