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–adjective
1.
associated or originating with household servants.
2.
secret, underhanded, or scandalous:
backstairs gossip.
Also,
backstair.
Origin:
1635–45;
adj. use of
back stairs
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back·stairs
(bāk'stârz')
adj. Furtively carried on; clandestine:
backstairs gossip.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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