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gra⋅din

  [grey-din; Fr. gra-dan]
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–noun, plural -dins  [-dinz; Fr. -dan] .
1. one of a series of steps or seats raised one above another.
2. Ecclesiastical. a shelf or one of a series of shelves behind and above an altar.
Also, gra⋅dine  [gruh-deen] .

Origin:
1830–40; < F: step, ledge of altar < It gradino, dim. of grado grade
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gra·din   (grād'n)   
n.  One of a series of steps or tiered seats, as in an amphitheater.

[French, from Italian gradino, diminutive of grado, step, from Latin gradus; see grade.]
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