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    [Noun]  | "pos*tern" | \ ˈpō-stərn \


    1: a back door or gate

    2: a private or side entrance or way


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English posterne, from Anglo-French, alteration of Old French posterle, from Late Latin posterula, diminutive of postera back door, from Latin, feminine of posterus;

    [Noun]  | "postern" 


    1: as in portcullis, trapdoor;


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     [ "postern" ]

    1: an entrance that no one really knows about, an un recognised entrance

      * e.g.,  ... The cops came in the front so we cheesed it out the postern. 

     [ "postern" ]

    1: a former employee made redundant by an organisation who is now doing work for free for that organisation, usually in the hope of being rehired when the economy improves.

      * e.g.,  ... She's trying to find a new direction, but in the mean time, she's effectively an IBM postern, still trying to direct sales leads towards her old employer. 

     [ "posternity" ]

    1: A combination of posterity and eternity. It really does go on forever and ever and ever.

      * e.g.,  ... Travis: "I've come up with an idea for the ages" Steve: "It'll go down in posternity" 

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