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backcloth

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back·cloth  (bkklôth,-klth)
n.
See backdrop.
backcloth
Noun
a painted curtain at the back of a stage set Also called: (backdrop)
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Noun1.backclothbackcloth - scenery hung at back of stage
backdrop, background
scenery, scene - the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale; "they worked all night painting the scenery"
Translations
Spanish backcloth [ˈbækklɔθ] n → telón m de fondo
French backcloth [ˈbækklɔθ] n (Brit) → toile f de fond
German backcloth [ˈbækklɔθ] (Brit) n → Hintergrund m
Italian backcloth [ˈbækklɔθ] n (BRIT) → scena di sfondo
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Every day the coast looked the same, as though we had not moved; but we passed various places--trading places--with names like Gran' Bassam Little Popo, names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister backcloth.
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