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stairwell

noun as in flight of stairs

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The renovations will also afford guests a chance to access “the vault,” the second-floor art storage space that has thus far only been visible through stairwell windows.

A court later heard he murdered her there and hid her body in a stairwell.

From BBC

There, in a detention center, they slept on a school stairwell and survived on sporadic deliveries of powdered milk.

From Salon

Mobile phones, cameras and other electronic gizmos surrendered, we squeezed along narrow corridors and down stairwells, including a bit of the building that was Henry VIII's tennis court.

From BBC

The Haitian man made it two steps out of the courtroom before he was swarmed by federal agents and ushered down an emergency exit stairwell.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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