"up stairs" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [English]

Forms: further up stairs [comparative], furthest up stairs [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adv|further}} up stairs (comparative further up stairs, superlative furthest up stairs)
  1. Archaic form of upstairs. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: upstairs
    Sense id: en-up_stairs-en-adv-5lj5Dswq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "english": "Fanny Hill",
          "ref": "1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 176:",
          "text": "I ſtept up ſtairs into my own bed-chamber, with no other thought than of pulling off my hat, &c.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 255:",
          "text": "There was more dancing and singing up stairs, more wit and conversation below; […]",
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          "ref": "1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 161:",
          "text": "“He’s in the dining-room, sir, along with mistress. I’ll show you up stairs, if you please.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “How Charles Nutter’s Tea, Pipe, and Tobacco-box Were All Set Out for Him in the Small Parlour at the Mills; and How That Night Was Passed in the House by the Church-yard”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 137:",
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