backcloth (redirected from backcloths)

back·cloth  (bkklôth,-klth)

n.

See backdrop.

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backcloth [ˈbækˌklɒθ]

n

(Performing Arts / Theatre) a large painted curtain hanging at the back of a stage set Also called backdrop

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

backcloth - 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

backcloth [ˈbækklɒθ] N (Brit) (Theat, also fig) → telón m de fondo

backcloth [ˈbækklɒθ] n (British)

(THEATRE) (= backdrop) (to stage) → toile f de fond

(fig) (= background) (to scenery) → toile f de fond
against a backcloth of green hills → sur un fond de collines vertes, avec les collines vertes comme toile de fond

(fig) (to event) against a backcloth of sth [+ strikes, industrial unrest] → dans un climat de qch
The events occurred against a backcloth of industrial unrest in Britain → Les événements ont eu lieu dans un climat d'agitation industrielle en Grande-Bretagne.

backcloth [ˈbækˌklɒθ] n (Brit) (Theatre) → fondale m (fig) → sfondo