adv. and a. [UP prep.2 1, 7.]

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  1.  adv. = UPSTAIRS adv. 1.

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1627.  Drayton, Moon Calf, 165. When vp-stayre one, downe-stayre another hies.

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  2.  adj. = UPSTAIRS a.

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1814.  Heyne, Tracts India, 277. I staid in an upstair room with him for many hours.

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1849.  Rock, Ch. of Fathers, I. iii. 230. Many of such upstair-chapels are still to be seen in … Gloucester cathedral.

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1861.  Flor. Nightingale, Nursing, ii. (ed. 2), 27. But do these people know the up-stair habits of this class [sc. young ladies]?

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1885.  Fortn. in Waggonette, 18. An upstair sitting-room.

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