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fire escape

–noun
an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.

Origin:
1670–80
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fire escape  
n.  A structure or device, such as an outside stairway attached to a building, erected for emergency exit in the event of fire.
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