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
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
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)
Also it was Herr Wagner's idea that the back cloth would leave the opera-goer indifferent to the picture gallery.
From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
