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winding staircase

noun

  1. another word for spiral staircase


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As we wrapped up our interview, Cosby paused and took a seat on the steps of his winding staircase.

There was this winding staircase and the house would feel like it was about to fall apart.

Without another word she left him, and where he stood he could hear her steps as she tripped down the winding staircase of stone.

Julian followed him, in silence, up an old-fashioned winding staircase, within a turret.

So she walked slowly down the winding staircase, grave, abstracted, as though revolving some weighty purpose in her mind.

He went slowly up the winding staircase which was so remarkable a feature of the finer Georgian houses.

In the lower hall he suddenly struck a parlor match that flared up and illumined the winding staircase to the third story.

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