back cloth
Example Sentences
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A back cloth of ghostly white covers the entire rear wall, and the floor has a bleak, blinding pallor.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the rather confined space between the footlights and the back cloth there came on a knight in armour.
From Diversions in Sicily by Jones, Henry Festing
One of my ideas is to treat it as the back cloth of a stage, and paint a vista on it.
From If I May by Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
He would have the ruthless Flavius seated on a curule chair of ivory, draped with purple, erected before a portico painted on the back cloth.
From The Aspirations of Jean Servien by France, Anatole
The back cloth was intentionally too long, so that the bottom was crumpled into folds which did well enough for little waves breaking on the shore.
From Diversions in Sicily by Jones, Henry Festing
