Meaning of above stairs | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Upstairs; in or on an upper floor.
   archaic
2. The part of a building above the ground level.
   archaic, uncountable
3. In or pertaining to the part of a large house, typically the above-ground rooms, in which the owning family lives, contrasted with below stairs where the servants are accommodated.
   British, historical

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Examples

“The Phyſician now arrived, and began to enquire of the two Diſputants, how we all did above Stairs? 'In a miſerable Way,' anſwered Thwackum.”

“She took him to a room above-stairs, and introduced him to a bed on which a magnified bolster, in yellow calico, figured as a counterpane.”

“He was found above-stairs in an empty room, searching the floor for something.”

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