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- not comparableHaving (a specified kind or number of) stairs.
They are variously described as simple, compound, hanging, tandem or two-staired, intersecting and nivation cirques.
1968, William David Thornbury, Principles of geomorphology, page 3582 more examples
In a device of the kind described, a plurality of platforms normally horizontally disposed in staired arrangement, each of said platforms comprising a pair of elongated platform elements[…]
1961, Canadian Patent Office record, volume 89, page 7750There is also speculation that the name Galata comes from the Italian word for descent (calata), an appropriate description of the steep and staired streets that slope down the hill from Beyoglu to the Golden Horn.
2010, Lynn A. Levine, Frommer's Istanbul, page 147
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