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English
Noun
stair-case (plural stair-cases)
- Archaic form of staircase.
1742, [Daniel Defoe], “Letter III. Containing a Description of Part of Middlesex; and of the Whole County of Hertford.”, in A Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain. , 3rd edition, volume II, London: J. Osborn, , →OCLC, page 160:As this Place [Kensington Palace] opens to the Weſt, there are Two great Wings build, for receiving ſuch as neceſſarily attend the Court, and a large Port-cocher at the Entrance, with a Poſtern, and a Stone Gallery, on the South-ſide of the Court, which leads to the great Stair-caſe.
1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: , volume I, London: T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 184–185:The lower part of the house had been now entirely shewn, and Mrs. Rushworth, never weary in the cause, would have proceeded towards the principal stair-case, and taken them through all the rooms above, if her son had not interposed with a doubt of there being time enough.
1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. , volume III, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and Archibald Constable and Co., , →OCLC, page 19:This little quay communicated with a rude stair-case, already repeatedly mentioned, which descended from the old castle.