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Definition of Backcloths
1. backcloth [n] - See also: backcloth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backcloths
Literary usage of Backcloths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Continental Stagecraft by Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Edmond Jones (1922)
"... by the same chandeliers, and the wide apron, the boxes, and the proscenium
made a sort of permanent setting which was varied by the shifting backcloths. ..."
2. Practical Hints on Playwriting by Agnes Platt (1920)
"... the backcloths for one or more of which can be set in front of the full set
so that a change of scene can easily be worked with a very little shifting ..."
3. Musings Without Method: A Reocrd of 1900-01 by Charles Whibley (1902)
"... of monsters and fairyland, of flimsy yet lustrous backcloths, and reckless,
irresistible puns. Above all, it was usual in these saturnalia to jibe at ..."
4. 0,10: The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting by Linda S. Boersma (1994)
"Linked by diagonal lines in the corners, these sketches, presumably executed on
the backcloths at a great scale, must have suggested the traditional ..."
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