DCHP-1 Online

Upper Town

• the part of a town on high ground some distance from the waterfront, usually residential in character.

  See also: Lower Town (def. 1)  

  • 1764  The House [is] situate in the Upper Town of Montreal. . . .
  • 1848  There is but one street leading from the Lower to the Upper Town and that is narrow and very steep, and the gate way is defended by a number of large cannons.
  • 1958  Quebec . . . is topographically divided into . . . the upper town and the lower.