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单词 winding stairs
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winding stairs
a. Of a staircase: Spiral. Chiefly in winding stairs (sometimes hyphenated).
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winding1530
half-paced1603
dogleg1671
newelled1677
flighted1929
low-rise1951
open-tread1960
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 158 Vne vis, a wyndingstayre.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong at Noyau A paire of winding staires.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxxv. 141 A round Tribunal, whereunto one ascended by fifteen winding stairs.
1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 153 These Winding steps are made about a solid Newel.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 114 A paire of artificial winding-stayres of stone.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 22 You may go up to the top by a winding staircase that is within it.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 191 Having finished the first flight of steps, fix the top of the first bearer for the winding-tread.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. liii. 96 She left the chapel..and coming to a low door, which plainly led into the tower, opened it, and climbed the winding stair.
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