ascensor

Noun

1. An elevator.
   • He is even more slow than the ascensors of the italian hotels. And, par dessus le marché, above the market, one sees on the door the american word “Elevator,” that which is the most rapid ascensor of the world! - 1896...
   • With the construction of the present system of ascensors or elevators the worst drawback to hill life was done away with. […] I believe that the Valparaiso women owe their fine figures largely to hill climbing, a good...
   • We have an ascensor in our pension. The big concierge puts me in, locks the door, unlocks the catch, and lets it go. When it gets to my floor it is supposed to stop, and in the same breath to have its door unfastened,...