dedans

1. A screened gallery for spectators at the service end of a court-tennis court.
2. The spectators at a court-tennis match.

[French, from dedans, inside, from Old French dedenz : de, of, from (from Latin dē; see de-) + denz, within (from Late Latin deintus, from within : Latin dē + Latin intus, within).]

dedans (Fr., inside). Term indicating that a movement travels or is turned in towards the body rather than away from it (en dehors).