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
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
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 A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
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
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 Henry Festing Jones
