upstairs-downstairs
adjEtymology
From the practice of servants living on the lower floors or basements of grand houses, while their employers live on the upper floors.
Definitions
Involving or relating to divisions or relations between different social classes,…
Involving or relating to divisions or relations between different social classes, especially domestic servants and their upper-class employers.
- In Gilded-Age Newport, an upstairs-downstairs romance between a well-born son and a humble maid is cut short of marriage.
- How different the thrust of a college education is today. It is broadly accessible and egalitarian. But an upstairs-downstairs syndrome still exists in American higher education.
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