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Definition of "backcloth" [backcloth]

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "backcloth" in a sentence
  • "It was here we found the seaducks that looked so much part of the wildness of the sea, with the snow-capped hills as a backcloth."
  • "What people are doing in public diplomacy and cultural diplomacy specifically is, I think, trying to create a backcloth against which formal diplomacy takes place."
  • "A painter's pink and purple sky was backcloth to the home team's late celebrations."