stair-wire

English

Noun

stair-wire

  1. Alternative form of stair wire
    • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1853, →OCLC:
      Soon after seven o'clock we went down to dinner, carefully, by Mrs. Jellyby's advice, for the stair-carpets, besides being very deficient in stair-wires, were so torn as to be absolute traps.
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