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- noun Plural form of
stairway .
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Examples
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The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses.
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Between the stairways was the entrance to the grotto; take the stairs up and you were brought to the Great Stairs with its grand murals.
Chatsworth: The Painted Hall Heather Carroll 2008
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On most floors, the stairways were about 30 feet apart in the core with the plumbing, elevators and other infrastructure.
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This style, which recalls the stairways of Louis XII. at the chateau of Blois, dates from the fourteenth century.
The Brotherhood of Consolation Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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There is also a soundproofing guide available to all those who want to information on soundproofing. sound insulating ceiling tiles, are very useful to reduce noise in common areas such as stairways and hallways and can be applied with our special contact adhesive that can also be used for all of our products.
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The team, make up of almost a dozen people, set up the equipment last March in the area of the front desk then put other recording devices in other areas such as stairways and where the old children's 'area was and spent 24 hours.
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These earlier tombs were of several types: (1) mastabas with square shafts; (2) mastabas with sloping "stairways," both of crude brick; (3) burials in the kind of large earthenware pot that our workmen call a _majūr_; and (4) burials of that now well-known type which has been called New Race, Libyan, Neolithic, etc., and which is distinguished by the contracted position of the body with the head to the south, and by a very definite class of pottery, paint slabs, beads, etc.
El Kab James Edward Quibell 1901
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The street lights are dim and there is a sense in behind the house façades of murderous old spaces with half-rotting floorboards, with crumbling brick and rattling windows and creaking stairways and alarm systems in urgent need of repair.
The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011
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It will be closed the following day, and workers from Joseph Construction Corp. of Pine Brook, N.J., will install "code-complaint" stairways and upgrade electrical and fire suppression systems, elevators and bathrooms.
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It will be closed the following day, and workers from Joseph Construction Corp. of Pine Brook, N.J., will install "code-complaint" stairways and upgrade electrical and fire suppression systems, elevators and bathrooms.
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