below stairs

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英文释义

介词短语
  1. On a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies; below the main floor of a multi-floor building. dated
    — I’le lock her into her Sister’s Room below Stairs, for to night, there’s no Balcony there.
  2. 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. UK,historical
    — a. 1631, John Donne, letter to H. Goodere, in Letters to Severall Persons of Honour written by John Donne, London: Richard Marriot, 1651, pp. 158-159, My daughter Constance is at this time with me; or the emptinesse of the town, hath made me, who otherwise live upon the almes of others, a houskeeper, for a moneth; and so she is my servant below stairs, and my companion above:
  3. Common, vulgar. broadly
    — Unless we wanted dear Simkins, given he is loyalty personified, the Queen Mother used to die of jealousy, to do the below stairs POV that "pleb" would be considered positively affectionate & unquestionably better than prole & actually a great improvement on Simkins?
  4. The areas of a large house in which house staff work, or the staff that work there. UK,historical

词形变化

below-stairs alternative belowstairs alternative

词源

From below + stairs.
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