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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: backstair (0.01503 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to backstair.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: backstair
backstair
adj : secret and sly or sordid;
“backstairs gossip”;
“his low
backstairs cunning”- A.L.Guerard;
“backstairs
intimacies”;
“furtive behavior” [syn:
backstairs,
furtive]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Backstair
Backstairs
\Back"stairs`\, Backstair
\Back"stair`\, a.
Private; indirect; secret; conducted with secrecy;
intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs; as,
backstairs gossip.
Syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, hush-hush,
on the quiet(predicate), secret, subterranean,
surreptitious, undercover, underground.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
A backstairs influence. --Burke.
[1913 Webster]
Female caprice and backstair influence.
--Trevelyan.
[1913 Webster]
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