Inflected forms: pl. dedans (-dä, -däz) 1. A screened gallery for spectators at the service end of a court-tennis court. 2. The spectators at a court-tennis match.
ETYMOLOGY:
French, from dedans, inside, from Old French dedenz : de, of, from (from Latin d; see de–) + denz, within (from Late Latin deintus, from within ( Latin d + Latin intus, within; see en in Appendix I).
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; see de–) + denz, within (from Late Latin deintus, from within ( Latin d
