moving staircase
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of moving staircase
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Feel this, for instance, when Harry and pals traverse the moving staircase.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
In 1909, the moving staircase at Père-Lachaise, which covered 30 centimetres a second, made the old kind of staircase seem intolerably uncooperative.
From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010
After years of trying, Mitsubishi Electric has developed a moving staircase that carries passengers not just up or down in a straight line but through a graceful, sweeping arc.
From Time Magazine Archive
Laura and her daughters would take the escalator, marveling at the moving staircase, she teasing them that this might be the ladder Jacob saw with angels moving up and down to heaven.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Near them three red ghosts were busily unloading demijohns from a moving staircase.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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