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 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 Henry Festing Jones
"L.U.E." meant the entrance at the left between the last "wing" and the back cloth.
From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer
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 David Christie Murray
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 Edward James Nankivell
