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backmost

British  
/ ˈbækˌməʊst /

adjective

  1. furthest back

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I sit down in the backmost chair, by the window that peers out over the avenue that crosses the street I live on, so close to my real life.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

In his study of the industrial situation and its perfectly baffling mystery, Mr. Brisbane must have caught a flash of something behind the backmost scene.

From The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem by Ford, Henry

She darted, bronze, to the backmost corner, flattening her face against the pane in a halo of hurried breath.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

Someone was talking, so I plumped down in the backmost seat.

From Letters of Franklin K. Lane by Wall, Louise Herrick

No wonder they all looked at me so!" he soliloquized, "for I did have my locks on the topside backmost, and my whiskers turned the wrong way.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 25, September 17, 1870 by Various

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