below stairs

Meaning

Prepositional phrase

• On a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies; below the main floor of a multi-floor building.
• In or pertaining to the lowest levels of a large house where the house staff work and are accommodated, contrasted with above stairs where the owning family reside.
• The areas of a large house in which house staff work, or the staff that work there.

Origin

• below + stairs