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
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)
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)
The back cloth was intentionally too long, so that the bottom was crumpled into folds which did well enough for little waves breaking on the shore.
From Diversions in Sicily by Jones, Henry Festing
