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- adjective Having (a specified kind or number of)
stairs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For a few minutes they both pretended, but soon enough they wound up at the base of the steel-staired tower.
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For a few minutes they both pretended, but soon enough they wound up at the base of the steel-staired tower.
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The worst was at Great Falls hence the name where the water dropped eighty feet in a mile and where any locks would have to be staired and cut out of the rock.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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The worst was at Great Falls hence the name where the water dropped eighty feet in a mile and where any locks would have to be staired and cut out of the rock.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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With just 28 tiny rooms, only some of which feature bathrooms — other showers and toilets are located in the hallway — the creaky-staired, hostel-style Amsterdam Inn, which offers accommodations for as little as $99 a night, is popular with European tourists and remains profitable, according to several sources.
No Vacancy for Stephen Ross��� Related at Amsterdam Inn 2007
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As he walked out, he was directed by a security officer to walk down the right side of the wide-staired entrance to the great building because there was a film location shoot taking place on the left side.
The Last Coyote Connelly, Michael, 1956- 1995
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Well Florrie handed me a box and she says I was to not open it till she was gone and then I showed them over the camp and the way the boys staired at Florrie I couldn't help from being proud of her but of course if some of them had of got to fresh I would of fixed them so they wouldn't do no stairing for a couple of wks.
Treat 'em Rough Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer Ring Lardner 1909
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Thin, gaunt dogs barked and snarled in the narrow staired streets.
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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The quaint salutations as he passed along the staired streets: _Naharkum Sayeed!
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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The thirty-staired Seats, all round our Amphitheatre, get instantaneously slated with mere umbrellas, fallacious when so thick set: our antique Cassolettes become Water-pots; their incense-smoke gone hissing, in a whiff of muddy vapour.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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