stairtower

noun

stairtower

noun

Etymology From stair + tower.

1

A tower with stairs on the inside.

  • The castle had four stairtowers when it was built, but only two remain.
  • We faced each other from opposite walls of the well-rubbed stairtower poised in an unblinking lovesickly gaze.2001, Flavia Alaya, Under the Rose: A Confession, page 114:

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