† fore-stairn.
Scottish. Obsolete exc. Historical.
(See quot. 1797.)
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fore-stair1622
well stairs1669
flyer?1677
French flyers1728
well staircase1729
bed-steps1833
bracket-stair1842
bracket-staircase1842
kitchen stair1844
stair-tree1848
box step1852
box staircase1875
1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 174 Ȝour foirstairis makis ȝour housis mirk, Lyk na cuntray bot heir at hame.
1775 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 323 James Alexander has erected a forestair adjoining the South front of his new house.
1797 E. Berkeley in G. M. Berkeley Poems Pref. p. lxi Stone houses, most of them disfigured by..a fore stair, that is, an open stair case, on the outside, in a zigzag manner across the front of the house.
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