Recent Examples on the WebWith Prince Phillip at her side, everyone in America’s legislative branch could hear — and see — the queen atop the House rostrum. Chad Pergram | Fox News, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2022 The governor, who has a reputation as a sometimes wooden speaker, stood throughout his address behind a rostrum as if giving a lecture, holding on to its edges with his hands.New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022 Putin spoke from his rostrum set up by the Lenin Mausoleum, overseeing Moscow's traditional Victory Day military parade. Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 10 May 2022 Carvel’s entrance is hilarious — driving a golf cart onto the stage, before making a putt that misses the flag and sends his ball off the edge of the rostrum. Demetrios Matheou, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2022 Biden will step up to the House speaker’s rostrum to address a nation in conflict with itself. Calvin Woodward And Zeke Miller, chicagotribune.com, 27 Feb. 2022 After becoming president in 2009, Biden sat at the rostrum, with the House speaker, for President Barack Obama's State of the Union addresses. Darlene Superville, ajc, 1 Mar. 2022 The foreign minister of Tuvalu, the island nation a smidge above sea level, beamed in from a rostrum submerged in the Pacific Ocean to talk about the concept of underwater sovereignty.Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2021 While delivering her inaugural address, Lightfoot invoked Chicago’s history of corruption and turned to face aldermen on the rostrum behind her, which some interpreted as an attack on their integrity. Gregory Pratt, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Latin, beak, ship's beak, from rodere to gnaw — more at rodent