Talk:airy
Latest comment: 2 years ago by Equinox in topic Also archaic slang for an area?
...in the sense of the sunken entrance in front of a house, where servants would enter. e.g.
- 1836-37, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
- The envelope was directed to blank Weller, Esq., at Mr. Pickwick’s; and in a parenthesis, in the left hand corner, were the words ‘airy bell,’ as an instruction to the bearer.