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
There was an artificial waterfall on a level with the upper entrance and the back cloth conveyed the impression of an illimitable vista.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie
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
South Africa seems always painted on the back cloth of my Cambridge memories.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 Nankivell, Edward James
