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Backcloth

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.

    "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."

  2. 2
    scenery hung at back of stage wordnet

Etymology

From back + cloth.

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