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palier

landing (staircase)

noun pah-LYEH Rare
Home & Lifestyle Construction

Also means

level, threshold (figurative)

Usage Note

Palier is primarily the landing or platform between flights of stairs in a building. Neighbours who share a landing are called voisins de palier. Figuratively, un palier describes a plateau or level reached — as in atteindre un palier in a learning curve or price graph. The word should not be confused with pallier (to compensate for), which is a verb.

Examples

"Ils se sont croisés sur le palier du troisième étage."

Natural Translation

They ran into each other on the third-floor landing.

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