Meaning of upstairs-downstairs | Babel Free

Definitions

Involving or relating to divisions or relations between different social classes, especially domestic servants and their upper-class employers.

not-comparable

Examples

“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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