Definitions for: Backstairs


[n] a second staircase at the rear of a building
[adj] secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"



Webster (1913) Definition: Back"stairs`, Backstair Back"stair`, a.
Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding
access by the back stairs.

A backstairs influence. --Burke.

Female caprice and backstairs influence. --Trevelyan.

Synonyms: backstair, covert, furtive

See Also: staircase, stairs, stairway, steps

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