back cloth
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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
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)
There was an artificial waterfall on a level with the upper entrance and the back cloth conveyed the impression of an illimitable vista.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie
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
South Africa seems always painted on the back cloth of my Cambridge memories.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
