"stair-case" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: stair-cases [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} stair-case (plural stair-cases)
  1. Archaic form of staircase. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: staircase
    Sense id: en-stair-case-en-noun-IigvJAXS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "As this Place [Kensington Palace] opens to the Weſt, there are Two great Wings build, for receiving ſuch as neceſſarily attend the Court, and a large Port-cocher at the Entrance, with a Poſtern, and a Stone Gallery, on the South-ſide of the Court, which leads to the great Stair-caſe.",
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          "text": "The lower part of the house had been now entirely shewn, and Mrs. Rushworth, never weary in the cause, would have proceeded towards the principal stair-case, and taken them through all the rooms above, if her son had not interposed with a doubt of there being time enough.",
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