gradin
noun
one of a series of steps or seats raised one above another.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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In passing the gradins of the ladies, he stopped to says a few kind words to an old woman who was seated there, muffled in a cloak, and the light of royalty vanished.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper