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back-cloth

back-cloth is the alternative spelling of backcloth.

Meaning of backcloth

Noun

backcloth (plural backcloths)

  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.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203

Forms of back-cloth

pluralback-cloths

Phrases with back-cloth

Questions about back-cloth

What is back-cloth the alternative spelling of?
Back-cloth is the alternative spelling of backcloth.

Words near back-cloth in the dictionary

  1. back-checks
  2. back-class
  3. back-classed
  4. back-classes
  5. back-classing
  6. back-cloth
  7. back-cloth star
  8. back-cloth stars
  9. back-cloths
  10. back-comb
  11. back-combed

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