paternoster
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Such so-called paternoster elevators still survive in some German public buildings.
From Seattle Times • May 25, 2023
As the paternoster cabin in which he was slowly descending into the bowels of Stuttgart’s town hall plunged into darkness, Dejan Tuco giggled infectiously.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015
The loop: from the top The paternoster has been dubbed the ‘socialist among elevators’.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015
Nowadays, the very paternoster that inspired Heinrich Böll’s story is the setting for a popular weekly radio celebrity interview by West German Radio called the WDR2 Paternoster.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015
In the winter refectorium Of Maulbronn, in the cloister, One hears a merry sound and hum, Not like a paternoster.
From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
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