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Definition of Flight of stairs
1. Noun. A stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flight Of Stairs
Literary usage of Flight of stairs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Palmer's Index to "The Times" Newspaper (1887)
"Flight of Stairs and Breaking her Arm, &c., at Rhode Island. 20 m 5 a Thus. Jones.
.... Flight of Stairs ..."
2. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"... some narrow passage, and began to congratulate himself on having gained the
ground-Moor, did another flight of stairs appear before his astonished eyes. ..."
3. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"A flight of stairs, technically, is a continuous series of steps without a break,
... The run of a flight of stairs is its horizontal length. ..."
4. The Tenement House Problem: Including the Report of the New York State by New York (State). Tenement House Commission, Lawrence Veiller, Robert Weeks De Forest (1903)
"Each flight of stairs mentioned in the last three sections shall have an entrance
on the entrance floor from the street or street court, or from an inner ..."
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