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/flaɪt əv stɛrz/ Listen

noun

Stair n.

One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; commonly applied to those within a building.

A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only. "I a winding stair found."

Below stairs, in the basement or lower part of a house, where the servants are.

Flight of stairs, the stairs which make the whole ascent of a story.

Pair of stairs, a set or flight of stairs. pair, in this phrase, having its old meaning of a set. See Pair, n., 1.

Run of stairs (Arch.), a single set of stairs, or section of a stairway, from one platform to the next.

Stair rod, a rod, usually of metal, for holding a stair carpet to its place.

Up stairs. See Upstairs in the Vocabulary.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flight of stairs" Quotes from Famous Books

... the first flight of stairs, and my heart gave a sudden bound as if it would burst. I stopped, speechless and helpless, at the sight of Alicia, standing alone on the landing. My first look at her face told me she had heard all ...

— A Rogue's Life • Wilkie Collins

... not see her dive through the doorless opening into a hall where no sun-ray had ever entered. It could not have found its way in there had it tried. But up the narrow, squeaking stairs the girl with the pitcher was climbing. Up one flight of stairs, over a knot of children, half babies, pitching pennies on the landing, over wash-tubs and bedsteads that encumbered the next—house-cleaning going on in that "flat"; that is to say, the surplus of bugs was being turned out with ...

— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

... evidently not the avenue by which Maximilian had escaped into the forest. For it opened externally on the wrong side of the river, whilst everybody knew that its domestic opening was in one of the chapels of the schloss; and another circumstance, equally decisive, was, that a long flight of stairs, by which it descended below the bed of the river, made it impassable ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... at once lessened to half its width by a staircase. She listened intently, and could hear the other woman ascending the second flight of stairs. ...

— The Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective • Louis Tracy

... wooden ones. Hugo opened one of the wooden doors and showed a small sitting-room, where a meal was laid, and a fire spread a pleasant glow over the scene. The other door opened upon another narrow flight of stairs, leading, as Kitty afterwards ...

— Under False Pretences - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

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