backstairs

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.

   “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. isim An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.

   “The straight-forward course, they say, would be to proclaim outright, instead of trying to bring it in by the backstairs.”

3. sıfat 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.”

4. sıfat Scandalous.