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
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)
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)
The back cloth was raised and we had before us a tranquil sea with two little islands sleeping under a sunset sky.
From Diversions in Sicily by Jones, Henry Festing
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
