Found 3 items, similar to backstairs.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: backstairs
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: backstairs
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
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Backstairs
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]
Backstairs
\Back"stairs`\, Back stairs
\Back" stairs`\
(b[a^]k"st[^a]rz`) n.
Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the
front stairs; a second staircase at the rear of a building;
hence, a private or indirect way.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]