escalier

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

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

Before Freeman could make reply, she had passed out of the room, and commenced descending the escalier.

From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid

Ascending one marble flight of the grand escalier, one entered a lofty apartment whose noble proportions and richness of effect were most impressive.

From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting

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 Major W. E Frye