library steps

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

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

First recorded in 1755–65

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

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

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

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?"

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

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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