Crossword-Solution: BACKSTAIRS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Backstairs | a. | Alt. of Backstair |
We have 5 clues for the answer “BACKSTAIRS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Type of intrigue | 1 answer |
| a second staircase at the rear of a building | 1 answer |
| BACKDOOR ___ | 13 answers |
| Fugitive | 68 answers |
| Scandalous | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACKSTAIRS (5)
Officially tealess, that is; for, as was usual after such escapades, a sympathetic housemaid, coming delicately by backstairs, stayed him with chunks of cold pudding and condolence, till his small skin was tight as any drum.
You may as well go back again.” “I should be glad enough to go,” said Tom, “but how am I to get up that great hole again, now the steam has stopped blowing?” “I will take you up the backstairs: but I must bandage your eyes first; for I never allow anybody to see those backstairs of mine.” “I am sure I shall not tell anybody about them, ma’am, if you bid me not.” “Aha! So you think, my little man.
For, if people only once found out that you had been up my backstairs, you would have all the fine ladies kneeling to you, and the rich men emptying their purses before you, and statesmen offering you place and power; and young and old, rich and poor, crying to you, ‘Only tell us the great backstairs secret, and we will be your slaves; we will make you lord, king, emperor, bishop, archbishop, pope, if you like—only tell us the secret of the backstairs.
But, when he looked round him, there could be no doubt that he was safe up the backstairs, whatsoever they may be, which no man is going to tell you, for the plain reason that no man knows.
All the contests between the Court and the Chamber, showing, as they did, incessant change and constant vacillation, which must injure the prosperity of the country, he scoffed at as backstairs squabbles.
Quotes with BACKSTAIRS (3)
The basic religious idea in all patriarchal religions is the negation of the sexual needs. Only in very primitive religions were religiosity and sexuality identical. When social organization passed from matriarchy to patriarchy and class society, the unity of religious and sexual cult underwent a split; the religious cult became the antithesis of the sexual. With that, the cult of sexuality went out of existence. It was replaced by the brothel, pornography and backstairs-sexu…
Suppose boredom is a backstairs to liberation — insignificant, and so often overlooked. No one who has not known its higher degrees can claim to have lived. Not the Relative Boredom of long waiting at junctions for railway connections on the way to visit friends — or the rashly accepted week-end with acquaintances — the reviewing of a dull book. In such Relative Boredom the "wasting-of-time"-feeling only heightens the enjoyment of the coming escape, the anticipation of which …
Memoirs: the backstairs of history.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1970–2003).