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
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
South Africa seems always painted on the back cloth of my Cambridge memories.
From The New Machiavelli by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
No. 8.—On highly rolled plate paper, extra strongly bound in half green morocco, lettered on back, cloth sides, gilt edges, no locks or clasps.
From Stamp Collecting as a Pastime by Edward James Nankivell
