: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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From 1844 till her death in 1922, Sarah would continue making additions to the property, which now stands at 24,000 square feet, with 160 rooms, 10,000 windows, 2,000 doors, 47 stairways and fireplaces and more.
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Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Palazzolo’s art is in one of the larger rooms of the Rice Hotel, to the left of the stairway guests use to enter the space.
—Mario Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
Their flowers, red, rose above the courtyard and the divan where the village elders met, over the ten balconies and the stairway windows.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Without the Mountain View gate, the nearest entrance to North Beach is from a steep stairway that is not handicapped accessible from Ocean Street at Rue Des Chateaux.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
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Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Palazzolo’s art is in one of the larger rooms of the Rice Hotel, to the left of the stairway guests use to enter the space.
—Mario Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
Their flowers, red, rose above the courtyard and the divan where the village elders met, over the ten balconies and the stairway windows.
—Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
Without the Mountain View gate, the nearest entrance to North Beach is from a steep stairway that is not handicapped accessible from Ocean Street at Rue Des Chateaux.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
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“Stairway.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stairway. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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stairway
noun
stair·way
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: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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