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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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Etymology of 'Stair'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stair" Quotes from Famous Books

... her at the foot of the stair and led the way to the dining room. When she was seated at the round mahogany table she smiled across at the old lady ...

— The Gold Girl • James B. Hendryx

... no," said the little Fly, "To ask me is in vain; For who goes up your winding stair Can ne'er ...

— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... who had so kindly visited him a few days before, when his ears were suddenly invaded by the well-known sound of that whistle which always hung about the neck of Pipes, as a memorial of his former occupation. This tune being performed, he heard the noise of a wooden leg ascending the stair; upon which he opened his door, and beheld his friend Hatchway, with his old shipmate ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... noise, And she thought it was the boys A-playing at a combat in the attic; But when she climbed the stair, And found Jemima there, She took and she ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... month and a day, an exceedingly hot day, after Judge Thomas Van Dorn had fallen upon the stair leading to his office and had cut that gash in his forehead which left the white thread of a scar upon his high, broad brow, Judge Van Dorn sat in chambers in his office in the court house, hearing an unimportant matter. Because the day was hot, the Judge wore a gray silk coat, without a vest, and ...

— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White

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