Definition of "staircases" [staircases]

• Plural form of staircase. (noun)

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• "We would go into warehouses ten times the size of this room and see nothing but staircases -- staircases from the Civil War, staircases for southern plantations, staircases for old haunted houses, staircases that presidents would ascend, staircases that Marie Antoinette would descend, staircases that a soldier would take climbing out of a trench -- all made of plastic but like the real thing."
• "I liked the Museum, except for two things: the endless teeny tiny stairs in the new building the staircases were a cross between stairs and ramps, and the novelty wore off quickly, and the lighting in the new building."
• "In the passages and on the staircases is a too restless, too hurried coming and going, running, calling out to each other, asking the same question a thousand times before the answer is taken in and can be made use of."