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Backstair

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adj. clandestine, secret or furtive

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A stair or stairs in the back part of a house; private stairs.

Of or pertaining to stairs in the back part of a house: as, a backstair entrance.

Indirect; underhand; unfair; intriguing: as, backstair influence.

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adj. secret and sly or sordid

Word Usage

"We went clapping up a clean stone backstair, and then into a back passage cheerfully decorated with ragged light-green Kidderminster, and issued upon"

Equivalent

covert

Unknown

backstab backstage backstay

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

backstairs