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stairhead

NOUN
  1. platform at the top of a staircase

How To Use stairhead In A Sentence

  • A ballad flying from voice to voice across the country, sung at the ingle-neuk, repeated from one to another in the little crowd at a "stairhead," in which the grossest humorous view was the best adapted for the people, represented popular literature. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
  • Cam's own table was at the stairhead, the better to greet and farewell his guests, and to ask a favoured one occasionally to join him for a quick drink.
  • Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
  • He is a little timid, 'he proceeded, stiffening himself, and walking trimly to the stairhead. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. Bloomsday 2010: 'Ulysses' Celebrated Around The World (PHOTOS, POLL)
  • The stairhead cludgie door was ajar, which it hadn't been when I'd left.
  • The man who comes to paint the stairhead is frightened, but I am not supposed to overhear about that. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
  • Antoine took up his position at the stairhead, so that he could see all the clerks as they came in under the arched gateway.
  • The four porters have now come up and are waiting at the stairhead to be paid.
  • There was a time when people did not report domestic violence, for example, and I'm quite sure that not every scuffle at a stairhead would be reported.
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