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Outdoor stairway
Answer for the clue "Outdoor stairway ", 6 letters:
perron
Word definitions for perron in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A perron in architecture generally refers to an external stairway to a building. Curl notes 3 more specific usages: the platform-landing reached by symmetrical flights of steps leading to the piano nobile of a building; the steps themselves; or the platform ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (label en historical) A stone block used as the base of a monument, marker, etc.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perron \Per"ron\, n. [F.] (Arch.) An out-of-door flight of steps, as in a garden, leading to a terrace or to an upper story; -- usually applied to medi[ae]vel or later structures of some architectural pretensions.
Usage examples of perron.
Whoever will read his Basilicon Doron, particularly the two last books, the true law of free monarchies, his answer to Cardinal Perron, and almost all his speeches and messages to parliament, will confess him to have possessed no mean genius.
Le mousquet au bras, je revais, contre le perron, a mes affaires et a mes plaisirs.
Arrives a la maison de jeu, Savine et Leplaquet monterent le perron, Roger, qui voulait faire parler Dayelle sur madame de Barizel et surtout sur Corysandre, parut peu dispose a les suivre.
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Phoebe said, pointing, and, indeed, I saw slaves scrambling across the courtyard and leap-frogging up the inlaid tile perrons of the castle.