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Backstairs Common

Backstairs has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

a second staircase at the rear of a building

2

A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.

Adjective
1

secret and sly or sordid

"backstairs gossip"

"his low backstairs cunning"

"backstairs intimacies"

"furtive behavior"

2

Secret or furtive.

Example Sentences
"backstairs gossip" adjective
"his low backstairs cunning" adjective
"backstairs intimacies" adjective
"furtive behavior" adjective
See Also
secret servant scandalous backstair furtive staircase
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
stairway
Rhyming Words
irs airs sirs hirs firs eirs stirs fairs fnirs whirs heirs pairs lairs hairs choirs pamirs fakirs speirs theirs nadirs
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