stairhead
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of stairhead
Example Sentences
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Despite the sister's gabby gossiping, the kids' shenanigans, the marital jawings and set-tos, the dress for the party and the dressing for the party, there are bogeys at the stairhead and phantoms outside the window.
From Time Magazine Archive
When tired of this occupation, I would retire from the stairhead to the solitary and silent nursery: there, though somewhat sad, I was not miserable.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
The gentleman, going up, found his wife at the stairhead, all disordered and fearful, and said to her, 'What is all this?
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John
The flickering light of the cruisie lamp in the stairhead fell on him, and I thought he had the noblest figure of a youth that ever my eyes had rested upon.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Then, swiftly, he moved back once more to cover the stairhead.
From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox
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