English Dictionary

backstairs

noun

A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen. / An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.

She hurried up the backstairs to avoid being seen.

意味（1）

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

Other feet were already in the lower flight of the backstairs; but the upper flight was the one for me, and in an instant we were racing along the upper corridor […]

意味（2）

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.