library steps

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.

Word History and Origins

Origin of library steps¹

First recorded in 1755–65

Example Sentences

When at length he emerged on the library steps the tune changed, as was right and proper, to 'God save the Queen.'

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Long before one o'clock I was to be seen on the library steps, waiting for the door of paradise to open.

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He found Felicia in the library next morning, sitting high on the library steps, a pile of dusty volumes on her knees.

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Daily, on the library steps or in the hall of the Main Building, the co-eds talked of "What shall we do when we finish college?"

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Two stalwart girls came down the library steps and out through one of the iron gates.

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