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back-cloth stars

back-cloth stars is the plural of back-cloth star.

Meaning of back-cloth star

Noun

back-cloth star (plural back-cloth stars)

  1. An actor who stands upstage, forcing the other actors to face him and turn their backs to the audience, in order to draw more attention to himself.

Questions about back-cloth stars

What is back-cloth stars the plural of?
Back-cloth stars is the plural of back-cloth star.

Words near back-cloth stars in the dictionary

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

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