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Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.

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  1. a. Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.
  2. adj. secret and sly or sordid
  3. Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.
  4. s. secret and sly or sordid