BACKSTAIRS; BACKSTAIR

a.

1 definition — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

a.

Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.

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