Similar words: sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, in sackcloth and ashes, neckcloth, backchat, backcross, back country, clothe. Meaning: n. scenery hung at back of stage.
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(1) This is the backcloth to the dramatic events that were soon to follow.
(2) Nevertheless, against this backcloth, the associations have regular and detailed consultation with government departments, both formal and informal.
(3) The objective, in turn, provides a backcloth against which to make choices about how best to behave.
(4) The distant mountains form the backcloth of an opera set.
(5) Given a positive backcloth, constructive and honest appraisal is a challenging process, not something to be feared.
(6) This novel and distinctive economic backcloth to the inter-war years had a number of important consequences for town planning. Sentencedict.com
(7) The context is the backcloth on which the values in planning are produced.
(8) And woven into it is a Hardy-like backcloth of nature, of mountain heights, far above human turmoil.
(9) I'm not impressed by the promise of tax cuts against the backcloth of a public-spending deficit.
(10) So design one on the same scale as the backcloth.
(11) Stars glittered with the brilliance of jewels against a velvet backcloth.
(12) John Steinbeck used the dust and the pitiless skies as the backcloth to his novel.
More similar words: sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, in sackcloth and ashes, neckcloth, backchat, backcross, back country, clothe, cloth, back channel, back-channel, clothed, cloths, clothes, enclothe, unclothe, unclothed, washcloth, clothing, tea cloth, oilcloth, loincloth, clothier, dishcloth, clothespin, clothes peg, drop cloth, sailcloth, face cloth, bedclothes.