stairfuls

Noun

stairful (plural stairfuls)

1. (uncommon) The amount that fills a staircase.
   • And besides, Picasso starts out with loneliness and an effusion of pity, while Poussin starts out fierce: (that stairful of people who are handover-handing St. Erasmus’ warm entrails, like firemen passing the hose.)1929 November 1, A[lpheus] Hyatt Mayor, “A. Hyatt Mayor to Lincoln Kirstein”, in Mitzi Berger Hamovitch, editor, The Hound & Horn Letters, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, published 1982...