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
The back cloth was intentionally too long, so that the bottom was crumpled into folds which did well enough for little waves breaking on the shore.
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)
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)
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)
