backstairs

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen. plural,plural-only
    — Here I diſcovered the ſecret Cauſes of many great Events that have ſurprized the World, how a Whore can govern the Back-ſtairs, the Back-ſtairs a Council, and the Council a Senate.
  2. An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse. plural,plural-only
    — The straight-forward course, they say, would be to proclaim outright, instead of trying to bring it in by the backstairs.
形容词 adj.
  1. Secret or furtive.
    — […] if some peers (I am very sorry they are not as many as they ought to be) set themselves, in the great concern of peers and commons, against a back-stairs influence and clandestine government, then the alarm begins; then the constitution is in danger of being forced into an aristocracy.
  2. Scandalous.

词形变化

back-stairs alternative more backstairs comparative most backstairs superlative back-stairs alternative

词汇关系

近义词
backstair

词源

词源 1
From back + stairs.
词源 2
From back + stairs.
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