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Definition of Backseats
1. backseat [n] - See also: backseat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backseats
Literary usage of Backseats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"... Methodist Parson, with Tabernacle Harangue. "The doors to be opened at five,
begin exactly at six. Front seats, is. od.; backseats is." CHAPTER XXXVII. ..."
2. In the power of the Spirit; or, Christian experience in the light of the Bible by William Edwin Boardman (1883)
"In the same meeting were others as eager as she to hear and to have; but there
were some there who, though as quick to hear, were inclined to take backseats ..."
3. The R.I. Schoolmaster by Rhode Island Commissioner of Public Schools (1860)
"Instead of infants, we shall teach boys and girls ; instead of small boys and
girls, our "backseats" •will be filled with young men and young women. ..."
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