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
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
"L.U.E." meant the entrance at the left between the last "wing" and the back cloth.
From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by Archer, William
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
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
