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Definition of French flyers in US English:
French flyers
noun
rare, historicalA staircase in which each flight turns sharply so as to ascend parallel to the flight below it.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in Ephraim Chambers (?1680–1740), encyclopaedist.
