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backstair
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective backstair has 1 sense
- backstair(s = adj.all) backstairs, furtive - secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"
CIDE DICTIONARY
backstair, a.
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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