backstairs

About 0.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.
2. noun An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.
3. adjective Secret or furtive.
4. adjective Scandalous.

Similar words

covert furtive back door understairs houseback back-house forestair backroom down back room

Often followed by

influence gossip intrigue and to of at passage intrigues