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Involving or relating to divisions or relations between different social classes, especially domestic servants and their upper-class employers..
In Gilded-Age Newport, an upstairs-downstairs romance between a well-born son and a humble maid is cut short of marriage.
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.
Use upstairs-downstairs when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Upstairs-downstairs means Involving or relating to divisions or relations between different social classes, especially domestic servants and their upper-class employers..
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In Gilded-Age Newport, an upstairs-downstairs romance between a well-born son and a humble maid is cut short of marriage.
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