escalier

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It was défense d'entrer, so we only wandered round the grounds and looked in at the windows, down the avenues and round the ponds and hundreds of statues, and went up the great escalier.

From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous

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 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

The former �v�ch� is to-day the H�tel de Ville, but was built by Mansart in 1666, and has a fine escalier in sculptured stone.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Two lions in basalt on each side of the escalier are very striking objects, and the escalier itself is the most superb thing of the kind perhaps in the world.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E

Son escalier, tapiss� d'inscriptions et de bas-reliefs antiques, fait croire que nous entrons dans un mus�e.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.