Talk:airy

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.

Equinox ◑ 20:02, 11 February 2022 (UTC)