"smoke tower" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: smoke towers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} smoke tower (plural smoke towers)
  1. In a high building, a stairway protected by several inches of concrete and entered through a kind of "air lock" that prevents the poluted smoke to enter inside it. Synonyms: fire tower stairway
    Sense id: en-smoke_tower-en-noun-FaVTkWZO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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