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
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)
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
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)
South Africa seems always painted on the back cloth of my Cambridge memories.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
