Belowstairs

As Mrs. Wilson Helen Mirren, the chief housekeeper, explains, the visiting servants, for simplicity's sake, will be known "belowstairs" by the names of their employers. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

“I refuse to get embroiled in affairs belowstairs.” ❋ Karen Hawkins (2009)

Because of their genteel upbringing governesses lived a life of isolation, not fitting in with the servants belowstairs, not even the housekeeper, butler, or nanny, who, while they belonged to the upper ranks of servants, came from humble origins. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

“The upstairs maids, the belowstairs washing staff—all of the women in the house are behind ye.” ❋ Karen Hawkins (2009)

Was there an old onion basket somewhere in the keeping-room belowstairs? ❋ Maguire, Gregory (2005)

I will tolerate no murmur belowstairs that we are harboring any sort of — aberration. ❋ Maguire, Gregory (2005)

 She stumbled into a cloakroom, and then opened the door to a closet where two of the belowstairs staff were involved in recreational exercises. ❋ Maguire, Gregory (2005)

Yet one of these days the muffins will grow cold and the tea-cakes congeal as they summon the lads from belowstairs to cart the old cadaver up to the best bedroom. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (2005)

The darkening skies and plunging temperature sent the servants hurrying to complete their duties and retreat to belowstairs. ❋ Connie Brockway (2004)

The great room of the house looked into the street, and my new spouse being belowstairs, I had walked to the end of the room; and it being a pleasant, warm day, I had opened the window, and was standing at it for some air, when I saw three gentlemen come by on horseback and go into an inn just against us. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Hayden had just sunk deep into the feather mattress of his rented bed, his exhausted muscles groaning with relief, when an all too familiar banging sounded belowstairs. ❋ Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- (2003)

Thelma, she knew, read them aloud, first to Aunt Mari, then to Nanny Johnson and the children, and then to everyone belowstairs. ❋ Balogh, Mary (2003)

But when some of the upstairs neighbors start lobbying to keep their rubbish in the little yards in front of the basements, in effect reducing our already nonexistent view to a collective refuse site, there are rumblings of sedition belowstairs. ❋ Sting (2003)