backstairs : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: backstairs	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for backstairs
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
backstairs adj secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior" Synonym(s): backstair, backstairs, furtive n a second staircase at the rear of a building
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Backstairs \Back"stairs`\, Backstair \Back"stair`\, a. Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs. A backstairs influence. --Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. --Trevelyan.