"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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          "ref": "1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 42.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 180:",
          "text": "In another moment the locksmith was standing in the street, whence he could see that the light once more travelled up-stairs, and soon returning to the room below, shone brightly through the chinks in the shutters.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Mr. Dangerfield Receives a Visiter, and Makes a Call”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 78:",
          "text": "So Mrs. Sturk led the way up-stairs, whispering as she ascended; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "[1872], [Emma Boultwood], “At Fernfield Hall”, in Maggie’s Message, London: The Religious Tract Society; […], page 55:",
          "text": "“Well, we must find out Mr. Frank’s address to-morrow, and you must write and tell him all about it,” said his wife, and taking up the jug of milk she had come to fetch, she went up-stairs. But the next minute she came flying down again. “John, run for the doctor directly,” she said; “that poor thing is dying, I do believe. Go up and call Molly,” she said as she went up-stairs again.",
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          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200, column 2:",
          "text": "Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose,—there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead,—came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.",
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          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200, column 2:",
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