Backstairs

Word BACKSTAIRS
Character 10
Hyphenation back stairs
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Backstairs"

What do we mean by backstairs?

Furtively carried on; clandestine. adjective

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. noun

Private; indirect; secret; conducted with secrecy; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs. adjective

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

An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse. noun

Secret or furtive. adjective

Scandalous. adjective

A second staircase at the rear of a building noun

Secret and sly or sordid adjective

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

An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Backstairs

The word "backstairs" in example sentences

The road to eminence lay by the "backstairs," the atmosphere of which he could not endure. ❋ Sebastian Brant (1489)

Now, this will all be cleared up soon, but Mrs. Chiffinch misses you and wonders if we could sneak you in for a quiet supper in the backstairs with us. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

We crept up the backstairs in our nightclothes, trailed by the sleepy dogs. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

In it, Bearden alternates between the commotion of Harlem -- street cars and barbershops, friends congregating on the corner -- and our quietest possible moments on earth -- through one of the building's windows, a couple makes love; through another, a man sits by himself on the backstairs. ❋ Bobby Elliott (2011)

Will this happen or will the IMF job be subject to the usual mix of carve up, power politics and backstairs intrigue? ❋ Unknown (2011)

The walls of the backstairs and restrooms are also covered in kits. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“Hitler came to office in 1933 as the result, not of any irresistible revolutionary or national movement sweeping him into power, nor even of a popular victory at the polls, but as part of a shoddy political deal with the ‘Old Gang’ whom he had been attacking for months… Hitler did not seize power; he was jobbed into office by a backstairs intrigue”… ❋ Unknown (2010)

I said I'd swim in blood first, so two minutes later I was being escorted down the backstairs by two of his stalwarts, standing on my dignity and doing what I was bid, in the sure knowledge that I was on a sound wicket, and the longer they held and hindered me, the more crow they'd have to eat in the long run. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The AJC's patrician leaders, seeing themselves as American Jewry's "council of elders," eschewed mass political action and preferred to work informally through "discreet pressure and backstairs diplomacy." ❋ Unknown (2007)

In spite of differences of rank and social class, people are people, and the human tragedy can unfold as easily in the glittering drawing room as it does in the winding backstairs passages used by the servants. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

A short while later, after I had dragged him around my apartment, taking him even on my backstairs so the neighbors could see, so that even the sky might know that I had won, I told him who I was as he lay under me in my bathtub, shiny from what we'd done. ❋ Alexander Chee (2009)

The General Assembly adopted the partition resolution 181 (after extraordinary backstairs blackmail and with a "majority" that reflected representation of much less than half of the world's population). ❋ Unknown (2009)

But mostly, Kanon avoids historical big shots and concentrates on the backstairs life around the project - the heat, the chamber-music evenings, dancing in a desert roadhouse with Billie Holiday on the jukebox. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Oh yeah...great quote from that article I linked: 'Sarkozy has opened the curtains on a country which was happily eating cheese and climbing up the backstairs to visit mistresses,' says my friend gloomily. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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