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
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
South Africa seems always painted on the back cloth of my Cambridge memories.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
A back cloth of tree-trunks and dark forest: a wigwam, a fire, and a cradle hanging from a pole.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Also it was Herr Wagner's idea that the back cloth would leave the opera-goer indifferent to the picture gallery.
From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
