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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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Etymology of 'Stair'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stair" Quotes from Famous Books

... and shield, and scimitar against the wall, and then followed the duenna, with silent steps, up a winding stair-case, to the apartment of Xarisa. Vain would be the attempt to describe the raptures of that meeting. Time flew too swiftly, and the Abencerrage had nearly forgotten, until too late, his promise to return a prisoner to the Alcayde of Allora. The recollection of ...

— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving

... like it;—and so did you. I was so glad you got that poor man's horse. You were not angry then?" They had now passed across the hall, and were on the bottom stair. ...

— The Eustace Diamonds • Anthony Trollope

... the foot of the stair and led her to the dining-room. Another surprise! The room was not only large, pleasant, and airy, overlooking a beautiful garden, but it was neat and tidy, and the table was spotless, with fine damask, delicate china, and beautiful ...

— Elsie Marley, Honey • Joslyn Gray

... I did, after you," said she, turning to the butler, "was gone to bed—I'm sure of it—Nay, don't you recollect my taking this JAPANNED CANDLESTICK out of your hand, and making you to go up to bed with the brass one, and I bolted the door at the stair-head after you?" ...

— The Parent's Assistant • Maria Edgeworth

... Ossawatomie spake on his dying day: "I will not have to shrive my soul a priest in Slavery's pay; But let some poor slave-mother whom I have striven to free, With her children, from the gallows-stair put up a ...

— The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 • Various

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