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
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
The paternoster is the VW Beetle among lifts.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
Then, turning away from it, she sank on her knees beside the great chair, folded her hands and softly whispered a paternoster.
From On the Heights A Novel by Berthold Auerbach
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