backstairs
adjective
associated or originating with household servants.
backstair
-
a variation of
backstairs.
Example Sentences
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"And when all that was finished, they sent people of backstair influence to have it all endorsed."
From Stories and Pictures by Isaac Loeb Peretz
To know, he will have us go in at the great door of obedient faith; and if anybody thinks he has found a backstair, he will find it land him at a doorless wall.
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald
I descended a stair corresponding with that backstair, as I am told, up which Madame had led me only the night before.
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
What have you, an ardent disciple of music, to do in such a land where favouritism and backstair influence win the day over even the merits of a Schubert?
From A Romance of Two Worlds by Marie Corelli
I entered; it was a short passage about six feet long, leading perhaps to a backstair, but the door at the end was locked.
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
