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backways
n. (plural of backway English)
Usage examples of "backways".
A group of tired guards hailed him as he came through the gate, then looked the other way as he took a candle from the rack and slipped into the backways.
Then they passed under the arch of an old gate into a tangle of backways.
Brennan tucked the crate under his elbow, found shadows to slip into, and disappeared into the backways of a world where the word for war was the same in all languages, realizing as he did so that it was the Jaahtcar who'd brought that word to Lunavar.