Definition of "back stairs" []

• Alternative spelling of backstairs. (noun)

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• "Most likely while still asleep I'd heard the night nurse, Sarah Kirk, going down to the kitchen by the back stairs to fix a cup of tea."
• "Mr Lugg took it, and some time afterwards he came down the back stairs with a suitcase in his hand."
• "Though I did get down the back stairs of the mountain at Axenstein, I get up the front stairs of my hotel here, which are broad and by no means steep, with no little trouble, not that there are many of them, for I am on the first floor; but I am acquiring a very considerable difficulty in the art (or nature) of breathing, and think that I may yet, before I die, develop the accomplishment of decided asthma."