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stairwell
[ stair-wel ]
noun
- the vertical shaft or opening containing a stairway.
stairwell
/ ˈɛəˌɛ /
noun
- a vertical shaft or opening that contains a staircase
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of stairwell1
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The 18-year-old looked up the stairwell and saw a crane shaking.
Once Gemma is in the stairwell, she calls her husband to open the door and come with her.
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.
The former Cartoon Network Studios building in Burbank had a stairwell for artists to draw in.
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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