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Definition of Backdrops
1. backdrop [v] - See also: backdrop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backdrops
Literary usage of Backdrops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Interim Report of the Committee on Changes in New Source Review Programs for by National Research Council (U.S.) (2005)
"SCENARIOS OF REGULATORY backdrops AND NSR RULES As discussed in Chapter 2, NSR
is not the only Clean Air Act program that affects air emissions by industry. ..."
2. Representations of Violence: Art about the Sierra Leone Civil War by Patrick K. Muana, Chris Corcoran, Russell D. Feingold (2005)
"Since the cost of that length of cloth would have been prohibitive, I wanted
large sheets of paper to paint r6 foot backdrops. (As it happens this was my ..."
3. Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway by Ed Readicker-Henderson (2006)
"... autographed pictures of Stallone and, for the movie buff, there is a self-guided
Rambo Tour, which points out all the infamous backdrops for the movie. ..."
4. Change Is the Rule: Practical Actions for Change: On Target, on Time, on Budget by Winford E. Holland, Winford E. Holland, Ph.D. (2000)
"Imagine not working out detailed gameplans for starting and stopping the music,
when curtains are to open and close, when scenery and backdrops are to be ..."
5. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1918)
"... the stage has been cleared of its painted backdrops, cut borders and tawdry
flats, and equipped with a simple permanent plastic set, supplemented by ..."
6. Continental Stagecraft by Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Edmond Jones (1922)
"... borders, flats, or backdrops. There was even a something along the front of
the platform which might conceal footlights, ..."
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