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[ noun ] a way of access consisting of a set of steps
Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)It was amazing how they had herded together for protection : an enormous matriarch in a quilted silk wrapper , rising from the breakfast_table ; a gross boy in his teens , shuffling in from the kitchen with a sandwich in his hands ; a girl in her twenties , fat and sullen , descending the marble staircase ; then all four gathering on the sofa to face the inquisitor . (Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)Martha_Schuyler , old , slow , careful of foot , came_down the great staircase , dressed in her best lace-drawn black silk , her jeweled shoe buckles held forward . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)A_couple_of years back , I occupied a Village apartment whose outer staircase contained the type of niche called a `` coffin turn '' . Related terms way flight ladder backstairs fire_escape ramp ghat escalator companionway building landing step stairhead |
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