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An example use of stairway in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… hot on this stairway don't want you do …”
A stairway is a set of stairs that are built to go up and down.
the word stairway occurs in english on average 2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.