backcloth
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Long gone are the days when pantomime is a tatty backcloth, a funny little band and people coming on doing sketch comedy," he says.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2015
On his fashion backcloth, this designer reached perfection.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2012
Even the backcloth had "the cracked-varnish patina of a nautical seascape".
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2011
I do this to provide the backcloth to the main purpose of this statement.
From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2011
The whole landscape—beach and headland and sea and rock—quavered in front of my eyes like a stage backcloth.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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