below stairs

Etymology
From.

Prepositional phrase

 * 1)  On a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies; below the main floor of a multi-floor building.
 * 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.
 * ,, 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:
 * 1) * 1972,, , Toronto: New Canadian Library, 2015, Part2, Chapter1,
 * Children always lived closer to the servants than their elders, and Caroline and I never knew where we stood with anybody, and sometimes found ourselves hostages in dark, below-stairs intrigues.
 * 1)  Common, vulgar.
 * 2)  The areas of a large house in which house staff work, or the staff that work there.
 * 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:
 * 1) * 1972,, , Toronto: New Canadian Library, 2015, Part2, Chapter1,
 * Children always lived closer to the servants than their elders, and Caroline and I never knew where we stood with anybody, and sometimes found ourselves hostages in dark, below-stairs intrigues.
 * 1)  Common, vulgar.
 * 2)  The areas of a large house in which house staff work, or the staff that work there.
 * Children always lived closer to the servants than their elders, and Caroline and I never knew where we stood with anybody, and sometimes found ourselves hostages in dark, below-stairs intrigues.
 * 1)  Common, vulgar.
 * 2)  The areas of a large house in which house staff work, or the staff that work there.
 * 1)  The areas of a large house in which house staff work, or the staff that work there.
 * 1)  The areas of a large house in which house staff work, or the staff that work there.
 * 1)  The areas of a large house in which house staff work, or the staff that work there.