stair-wire
English
Noun
stair-wire
- Alternative form of stair wire
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:
- 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.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4: