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1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. iii. iii. 841 Dining-room, twenty feet by sixteen feet, with company and service entrances.

1833 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 21 Dec. 418/1 The..central portion of the plan, contains the principal staircase, flanked with waiting and service-rooms.

1860 Scotsman 4 May In the wing stretching backwards..is a pathological museum, with the landing-place of the private or service staircase..and other conveniences.

1863 J. Grant Letty Hyde's Lovers xlii. 305 The dining-room..adjoined the kitchen, from whence it was merely separated by a square service-door.

1869 Era 17 Oct. 14/4 From this floor there are separate service stairs, which go direct to the top of the building, and lifts for the supply of dinners go from here to every floor.

1933 Archit. Rev. 73 24/2 (caption) The service-bay between the kitchen and the restaurant.

1956 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy xiv. 92 She went out the back, through the service entrance.

1976 H. Nielsen Brink of Murder xii. 106 The manager conceded that there was a service door and..accompanied them upstairs on the service stairway.

1990 Country Life 24 May 119/3 New service stairs were installed at the corners of the north front by doubling the giant Doric pilasters.

1993 M. Leigh Naked in M. Leigh Naked & Other Screenplays (1995) 48 Surrounded by silver pipes and ducts, Johnny and Brian are sitting at the top of a functional-looking service staircase.

2015 N.Y. Mag. 1 June 66/2 Those with a few hundred grand to spare might consider the life-size Care-O-bot.., a service robot designed to help humans clean the kitchen, among other household tasks.