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Definition of Escalators
1. escalator [n] - See also: escalator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escalators
Literary usage of Escalators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Architecture and Building (1912)
"escalators have proved the key to progress where the safe, ... escalators have
demonstrated that they are indispensable wherever they have been installed. ..."
2. The Building Law of the City of Boston: Being Acts of 1907, Chapter 550, as by Boston, Charles Stanhope Damrell (1919)
"The speed of escalators of the "stair-tread" type shall not be increased to exceed
95' 0" per minute, but the escalators of this type now operating at a ..."
3. The Enclosed Garden: History and Development of the Hortus Conclusus and Its by Rob Aben, Saskia de Wit (1999)
"... is a transferium for pedestrians, an interchange for escalators, lifts, spiral
stairs, a tube station, a taxi rank, entrances, exits and accesses. ..."
4. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"Fortunately, escalators offered an opportunity of escape. Aftera series of
escalators, the visitor landed in a completely different world. ..."
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