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stairwell

or stair well

[ stair-wel ]

noun

  1. the vertical shaft or opening containing a stairway.


stairwell

/ ˈɛəˌɛ /

noun

  1. a vertical shaft or opening that contains a staircase
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of stairwell1

First recorded in 1915–20; stair + well 2
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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’s jail supervisor testified that Baker also tried to leave coded kites — a surreptitious method of inmate communication using handwritten binary code on paper — 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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The screenplay combines secret stairwell negotiations, the art of political backstabbery, and sincere conversations about faith and doubt into a film quite like no other this year, and deserves its honors.

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