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† ˈfore-stair Sc. Obs. exc. Hist.
[f. fore- prefix + stair.]
(See quot. 1797.)
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxii. 17 Ȝour foirstairis makis ȝour housis mirk, Lyk na cuntray bot heir at hame. 1775in Cramond Annals of Banff (1891) I. 323 James Alexander has erected a forestair adjoining the South front of his new house. 1797G. M. Berkeley's Poems Pref. 61 The houses at St. Andrews are disfigured by..a fore-stair, that is an open staircase on the outside in a zigzag manner across the front of the house. |