backstair

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back=stair

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective backstair has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

backstaira. 
     Private; indirect; secret; conducted with secrecy; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs; as, backstairs gossip.  [1913 Webster]
    "A backstairs influence."  [1913 Webster]
    "Female caprice and backstair influence."  [1913 Webster]

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