downstreetadv.adj.n.

1646 E. Ford Wine & Women 9 Down street he squats, and down he hangs his head, And hear's a funerall sermon like one dead.

1652 D. Edmonds Sharp Arrow 3 If our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ had come up street or downe street, and there to see folkes sell away Doves, our Lord and Saviour would have sayd no kind of thing unto them.

1701 J. Crook Design Christianity 12 Then I resolved..to go that time which way I should be moved or enclined in my Spirit, whether it was up Street, or down Street, East or West, [etc.].

1764 A. Murphy No One's Enemy but his Own ii. 38 I saw him as he walk'd down street yesterday evening.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxviii. 140 I believe I'll go down street, a few moments, and hear the news.

1876 W. Wright Hist. Big Bonanza xlix. 365 I was told down street..that there was a regular row in one of the shebangs up this way.

1955 J. Hersey in New Yorker 17 Sept. 131/1 Automobiles and refrigerators were bobbing downstreet like corks; people wouldn't last thirty seconds in that water.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 158 One goes down city only if he is going to the business center; if he is going no farther than the nearest grocery store or shopping center, his destination is downstreet.

2001 N.Y. Mag. 30 July 34/1 ‘I don't ever go downstreet,’ he says, using the local term for the Village of East Hampton... One of the few residents who do go downstreet, Waller has shown his work in Manhattan, London, Japan, and the former Morgan Rank Gallery in East Hampton.

2016 S. Miller Borden Murders 18 Her stepmother was upstairs making up the guest room, or perhaps by now downstreet doing the one or two errands she had mentioned.

1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 199 He began..to look out for a wife, up street and down... The down-street lady was a widow.

1862 Indiana Democrat 14 Aug. Our down-street neighbor ought to know Bergner better than to credit anything he says.

1905 Shoe Retailer 22 Mar. 121/1 Occasionally an outside dealer shows an amount of enterprise equal to that of the downstreet dealer.

1977 Greenfield (Mass.) Recorder 29 Jan. 15/8 (advt.) Ranch..family rm. with wood stove, convenient to downstreet area, $26,000.

2008 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 23 Aug. a6/2 Downstreet shopping has been replaced by trips to the mall.

1865 W. S. Banks List Provinc. Words Wakefield 76 Up Street, means the upper part of the town... ‘Dahn street’ is used in a similar manner.

1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases 73 Down-strit, the opposite direction in the main road through a village from up-strit.

1948 H. Brean Wilders walk Away xi. 127 Already the seldom-thronged sidewalks of ‘down street’ were crowded.

1980 S. M. Blumin & D. A. Blumin Short Season Sharon Springs iv. 74/2 Nearly all upstreeters recognize this decline, but when they talk about it they invariably refer to the tourist business and to downstreet.

2015 S. King Bazaar Bad Dreams 270 We can get takeout from downstreet and the kids can swim in the pool.