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backcloth

[ UK /bˈækklɒθ/ ]
NOUN
  1. scenery hung at back of stage

How To Use backcloth In A Sentence

  • The background is no incidental backcloth for the staging of the figure's magnificence.
  • This novel and distinctive economic backcloth to the inter-war years had a number of important consequences for town planning.
  • It was some weeks now since they had had any respite from shellfire against this dismal backcloth. DISPLACED PERSON
  • A craggy hill, criss-crossed by the sheep paths of centuries, forms the city's backcloth.
  • It was some weeks now since they had had any respite from shellfire against this dismal backcloth. DISPLACED PERSON
  • She and her selected helpers had been busy on the backcloth of the Nile at Sunset for their next theatrical production. Twin Moons
  • The lighting was also poor, spoiling the effect of the marvellous backcloth which for some reason looked as if it was on Mars, bathed in a light that threw out uniform reddish tones.
  • The difference of expert opinion nonetheless forms an important backcloth to the submissions made on the claimant's behalf.
  • This is the backcloth to the dramatic events that were soon to follow.
  • Nevertheless, against this backcloth, the associations have regular and detailed consultation with government departments, both formal and informal.
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