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backcloths

backcloths is the plural 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

Questions about backcloths

What is backcloths the plural of?
Backcloths is the plural of backcloth.

Words near backcloths in the dictionary

  1. backcheckers
  2. backchecking
  3. backchecks
  4. backclash
  5. backcloth
  6. backcloths
  7. backcomb
  8. backcombed
  9. backcombing
  10. backcombs
  11. backcountries

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