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n. (fire escape English)
Usage examples of "fire escapes".
Then a warder took me away again into an immense hall with tiers of cells lining the walls and with iron stairs like fire escapes.
Warehouses and tired tenements, fire escapes and delicatessens, and a few blocks away the art galleries and coffee houses and lofts crowded with artists and writers, sculptors and poets, beards and bandannas.
It topped them by two stories and had rear fire escapes, to show for this distinction.
Clyde's was a knothole of a bar in the bottom of a four-story building that was mostly fire escapes and clotheslines.
A tall man who stayed in the shadows and raced through the hotel corridors and across fire escapes with the movements of a mountain cat.
Pitchers of lemonade, cans of beer beaded with cold sweat, milk bottles full of ice water, rested on the fire escapes.
From the rear, the misshapen building looked like a grotesque bird with a topknot of chimneys, its carport and garage like awkward wings, its fire escapes and ledges like ruffled feathers.