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above-stairs
a. (alternate form of abovestairs English)(R:MW3 1976: page=5) adv. (alternate form of above stairs English) n. (alternate form of abovestairs English)
Usage examples of "above-stairs".
Or if to the respectable conclave above-stairs, who would have recoiled indignantly at the vulgar word "jobbing," had been hinted a phrase--which ran oddly in and out of the nooks of my brain, keeping time to the murmur in the street, "Vox populi, vox Dei"--truly, I should have got little credit for my Latinity.
Hence she had acquainted Jones with her being above-stairs in bed, in hopes that he might have caught her in Square's arms.