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Definition of the day : « backstairs »
- As in secret : adj underhand, clandestine
- As in secretive : adj uncommunicative
- As in huggermugger : adj secret
- "That's truth enough," said an asthmatic voice from the backstairs.
- Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine
- The road to eminence lay by the "backstairs," the atmosphere of which he could not endure.
- Extract from : « The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 » by Sebastian Brandt
- But I hope one of the results of this war will be the end of backstairs diplomacy.
- Extract from : « Face to Face with Kaiserism » by James W. Gerard
- The backstairs one would not choose; but what other way was there?
- Extract from : « The Lady of Lynn » by Walter Besant
- We will go to my room by the backstairs, then we sha'n't disturb anybody.
- Extract from : « Unlucky » by Caroline Austin
- He wasn't groom of the backstairs to England's queen for nothing.
- Extract from : « The Lion and The Mouse » by Charles Klein
- Morris handed him a quarter and he shuffled off toward the backstairs.
- Extract from : « Abe and Mawruss » by Montague Glass
- A backstairs way of discrediting a master before his servants.
- Extract from : « The Road to Damascus » by August Strindberg
- One was sometimes disposed to wonder whether he did not think too much about the backstairs.
- Extract from : « Studies in Contemporary Biography » by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
- Verus was no schemer; he walked in at the front door with a free and careless step, and scorned to climb the backstairs.
- Extract from : « The Emperor, Complete » by Georg Ebers