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backstairs
adjective
noun
Secret and sly or sordid
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adjective
Secret and sly or sordid
“Backstairs gossip”
noun
A second staircase at the rear of a building
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Backstairs gossip
{'source': 'A.L.Guerard', 'text': 'his low backstairs cunning'}
Backstairs intimacies
Furtive behavior
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