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stairwell

or stair well

[ stair-wel ]

noun

  1. the vertical shaft or opening containing a stairway.


stairwell

/ 藞蝉迟蓻蓹藢飞蓻濒 /

noun

  1. a vertical shaft or opening that contains a staircase
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of stairwell1

First recorded in 1915鈥20; stair + well 2
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She had been playing in a communal stairwell when Wilkes came out of his flat and stabbed her with a penknife three times, once to her jaw, then her shoulder and knee.

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The 18-year-old looked up the stairwell and saw a crane shaking.

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Once Gemma is in the stairwell, she calls her husband to open the door and come with her.

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A sheriff鈥檚 jail supervisor testified that Baker also tried to leave coded kites 鈥 a surreptitious method of inmate communication using handwritten binary code on paper 鈥 in a courthouse stairwell that the widow used after him.

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The former Cartoon Network Studios building in Burbank had a stairwell for artists to draw in.

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