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

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

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 France, Anatole

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)

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