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backstairs

noun

1 backstairs

A second staircase at the rear of a building.

adjective

1 backstairs

Secret and sly or sordid:
— Backstairs gossip.
— His low backstairs cunning.
— Backstairs intimacies.

synonyms: backstair, furtive.


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