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- noun Plural form of
crowstep .
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Examples
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Washing dangles above washing from the windows; the houses bulge outwards upon flimsy brackets; you see a bit of sculpture in a dark corner; at the top of all, a gable and a few crowsteps are printed on the sky.
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Albury has a number of beautiful chimneys; chimneys that are tall and graceful, of red brick, shaped and moulded in ingenious spirals, with patterned sides and columns, and crowsteps and other ornaments and uses.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Washing dangles above washing from the windows; the houses bulge outwards upon flimsy brackets; you see a bit of sculpture in a dark corner; at the top of all, a gable and a few crowsteps are printed on the sky.
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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So, around 1897, a Scots baronial cloak was pulled around Baledmund - with crenulations along the roofline, crowsteps on the gables, a candlesnuffer tower and several cantilevered lookouts from which to repel would-be attackers.
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