backcloth

/ ˈbækˌklɒθ /

noun

1. Also called: backdrop. a large painted curtain hanging at the back of a stage set

Example Sentences

The whole landscape—beach and headland and sea and rock—quavered in front of my eyes like a stage backcloth.

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All this against a backcloth of an uncertain world, the growing threats of terrorism, economic inequality, how to meet the defence budget and how to pay the heating bills for global warming.

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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.

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But for many, a backcloth of declining supply levels is also expected to propel zinc prices skywards in the near future.

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Promotion ambitions were merely the backcloth to this fixture, though.

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