"upstairs-downstairs" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the practice of servants living on the lower floors or basements of grand houses, while their employers live on the upper floors.",
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      "expansion": "upstairs-downstairs (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Antoinette Stockenberg, Time After Time:",
          "text": "In Gilded-Age Newport, an upstairs-downstairs romance between a well-born son and a humble maid is cut short of marriage.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, John A. Flower, Downstairs, Upstairs: The Changed Spirit and Face of College Life in America, page 166:",
          "text": "How different the thrust of a college education is today. It is broadly accessible and egalitarian. But an upstairs-downstairs syndrome still exists in American higher education.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Involving or relating to divisions or relations between different social classes, especially domestic servants and their upper-class employers."
      ],
      "id": "en-upstairs-downstairs-en-adj-T~zdOSYT",
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          "division",
          "division"
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        [
          "relation",
          "relation"
        ],
        [
          "social class",
          "social class"
        ],
        [
          "domestic",
          "domestic"
        ],
        [
          "servant",
          "servant"
        ],
        [
          "upper-class",
          "upper-class"
        ],
        [
          "employer",
          "employer"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "upstairs-downstairs"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the practice of servants living on the lower floors or basements of grand houses, while their employers live on the upper floors.",
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "-"
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      "expansion": "upstairs-downstairs (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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        "English adjectives",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Antoinette Stockenberg, Time After Time:",
          "text": "In Gilded-Age Newport, an upstairs-downstairs romance between a well-born son and a humble maid is cut short of marriage.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, John A. Flower, Downstairs, Upstairs: The Changed Spirit and Face of College Life in America, page 166:",
          "text": "How different the thrust of a college education is today. It is broadly accessible and egalitarian. But an upstairs-downstairs syndrome still exists in American higher education.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Involving or relating to divisions or relations between different social classes, especially domestic servants and their upper-class employers."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "division",
          "division"
        ],
        [
          "relation",
          "relation"
        ],
        [
          "social class",
          "social class"
        ],
        [
          "domestic",
          "domestic"
        ],
        [
          "servant",
          "servant"
        ],
        [
          "upper-class",
          "upper-class"
        ],
        [
          "employer",
          "employer"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
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    }
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  "word": "upstairs-downstairs"
}