below stairs
prep_phraseEtymology
From below + stairs.
Definitions
On a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies
On a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies; below the main floor of a multi-floor building.
- I’le lock her into her Sister’s Room below Stairs, for to night, there’s no Balcony there.
- it was talkd, that there was an old gentleman belowstairs whom they fancied to be Sr. Isaac Newton.
- She felt immensely superior to him suddenly, to all the people below stairs.
In or pertaining to the lowest levels of a large house where the house staff work and are…
In or pertaining to the lowest levels of a large house where the house staff work and are accommodated, contrasted with above stairs where the owning family reside.
- It vvas his younger Siſters Chamber, that I vvas in, and as there vvas no Body in the Houſe, but the Maids belovv Stairs, he vvas it may be the ruder: […]
- […] those fortunate bachelors, or other gentlemen of pleasure, who so manage their entertainment of compromising company that even the austerest housekeeper, occupied and competent below-stairs, never feels obliged to give warning.
Common, vulgar.
- A paragon must embody liberal democracy. To get its hands dirty defending it is below-stairs.
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The areas of a large house in which house staff work, or the staff that work there.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA