rostrum
noun
any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
rostrums
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pluralof rostrum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They suck food through strawlike beaks called rostrums.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
There has been plenty of pomp and circumstance, and even more long-windedness, as governors from coast to coast stepped to rostrums this month to deliver their annual State of the State addresses.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2018
It's incredible how focused and single-minded you have to be, and how hard you have to train, even to think about going to the Olympics, let alone standing on any rostrums.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
An ably painted picture, it is deplored because of its ubiquity on art calendars, school rostrums, candy boxes.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then we all knew how deathly opposed our pardners wuz to our takin' any public part in meetin' house matters or mountin' rostrums, and that thought quelled us down a sight.
From Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 by Marietta Holley
