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Vacuously self-important ass in top-flight location
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stairhead
Alternative clues for the word stairhead
Word definitions for stairhead in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stairhead \Stair"head`\ (-h[e^]d`), n. The head or top of a staircase.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. platform at the top of a staircase
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The landing at the top of a staircase
Usage examples of stairhead.
Tristam stood upon the stairhead looking out over a topography of jumbled white stone and tangled forest.
Branches were beginning to take shape and the line of the stairhead appeared straight and clearly defined.
Pons, thus reached on his weak side, again plunged into formulas more than polite, and went as far as the stairhead with the President.
By the stairhead, Paxero was getting to his feet, staring towards her.
They began to move towards the stairhead, Modesty facing forward, Willie facing back.
The stairhead lay obliquely along the passage, ten paces away, and the muzzle of one automatic rifle was trained steadily upon it.
Part of her being was totally engaged with the stairhead, the rest was with Willie Garvin.
She put the grenades in her pouch, and moved to the stairhead with the automatic rifles and her Colt.
All this time a continuing trickle of passengers was continuing to emerge from the stairhead and straggle into place in their loose formation on the green.
He crossed the corridor, paused irresolutely at the stairhead, then went on toward his own rooms, his head bent, his face expressing the liveliest dissatisfaction: an expression which deepened to disgust when, on opening his door, he perceived Tellier awaiting him within.
She was curled up, one evening, in the window-seat at the stairhead watching the moon rise over the great trees of the park, when she heard loud voices in the hall below, and peeping down, saw her father strike another man heavily across the mouth.
There was a new glare of freshly lit torches, and by their light Magda saw Camilla at the stairhead fighting.
At the stairhead a little group was waiting: the Goldsmiths, Bertrand, Christine, Welch, Beesley, and the other lecturers in the History Department.
She came to rest on seven-eights weight reduction, and even before the gangplanks were run out, the Kragans were dropping to the flat roof, running to stairhead penthouses and tossing grenades into them.
Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.