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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 backstair
 (a.)後面樓梯;廚房門

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Back·stairs, 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.
    A backstairs influence.   --Burke.
    Female caprice and backstair influence.   --Trevelyan.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 backstair
      adj : secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low
            backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs
            intimacies"; "furtive behavior" [syn: backstairs, furtive]