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

South Africa seems always painted on the back cloth of my Cambridge memories.

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

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)

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