A dais (/ˈdeɪ.əs/ or /ˈdaɪ.əs/) is any raised platform located either inside or outside a room or enclosure, often for dignified occupancy, as at the front of a lecture hall or sanctuary. At military parades, the dais is the raised, sometimes covered, platform from where the troops are reviewed, addresses made and salutes taken. In life drawing rooms of art schools, the platform where the model poses for the students is sometimes referred to as the dais.