area

1) In a nineteenth-century urban context this was the space in front of a basement dwelling, accessible by a flight of steps and with iron railings at pavement level.

1859 Mr Fowler of Spring Street asked permission to make an area under the foot pavement and area steps into a cellar dwelling. The OED has evidence of related meanings from the seventeenth century.

dates 1859

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