escalier
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Before Freeman could make reply, she had passed out of the room, and commenced descending the escalier.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
Leaning back with half- closed eyes, he kept saying over and over to himself,— Devant une façade rose, Sur le marbre d'un escalier.
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
I loved that escalier electrique; one day I will return and ascend and descend upon it for hours.
From The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone
Wives cried from escalier windows to their men to come in by and lie decently down, to be ready for their work in the morning.
From Red Axe by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The door on the right-hand end, on entering, opens to a less richly ornamented salon, inside which are two admirable bed-chambers and dressing-rooms, communicating by an escalier dérobé with a suite of servants' apartments.
From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
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