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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Backstairs \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: backstairs adj : secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior" [syn: {backstair}, {furtive}] n : a second staircase at the rear of a building
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