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Backstairs

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furtiveOf a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
backstairnounclandestine, secret or furtive
covertnoun(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.

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covertnoun(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
furtiveOf a thing: done with evasive or guilty secrecy.
back doornounA subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.
understairsnounA basement or cellar constructed, or accessed, from underneath the stairs.
housebacknounThe rear of a house.
back-housenounAlternative form of backhouse. [(now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building, or an annex attached to the rear of it; especially, a scullery or washhouse.]
forestairnounThe stairs at the front of a building, traditionally those used by the occupants rather than by tradesmen, etc.
backroomnounA room near the rear of a premises.
downverb(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
back roomnounAlternative spelling of backroom. [A room near the rear of a premises.]
back housenounA garden apartment.
back gardennounA garden at the rear of a property.
stairwellnounA shaft in a multi-story building enclosing a stairway or staircase.
back porchnounA porch at the rear of a building.
back passagenounThe passage between two terraced houses leading between the front and back gardens or yards.
back kitchennounA scullery.
tradesman's entrancenounThe entrance to a large house, used by tradesmen to deliver goods and services; usually at the side or rear.
stairnounA series of steps; a staircase.
backbenchnoun(politics, UK, New Zealand, often attributive) In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by members of each party group who are not party leaders, cabinet ministers, holders of offices such as the whips, etc.
back alleywaynounA back alley

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