stepping-stones

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Noun

stepping-stones

  1. plural of stepping-stone
    • 1837, L E L, “The Fête at Sir Robert Walpole’s”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 33:
      The child becomes a boy: Eton or Westminster, Oxford or Cambridge, have garnered for his sake the wisdom of centuries: he is launched into public life, and there are friends and connexions on either hand, as stepping-stones in his way.