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
South Africa seems always painted on the back cloth of my Cambridge memories.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
In the rather confined space between the footlights and the back cloth there came on a knight in armour.
From Diversions in Sicily by Henry Festing Jones
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 D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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 Anatole France
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