Definitions
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- noun the
painted scenery at the back of astage ; thebackdrop
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- noun scenery hung at back of stage
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Linda Constant: A Different Kind of P2P: The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad Linda Constant 2010
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A painter's pink and purple sky was backcloth to the home team's late celebrations.
Dean Holdsworth's 'microwave month' brings right flavour to Aldershot | Jeremy Alexander 2011
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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.
Linda Constant: A Different Kind of P2P: The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad Linda Constant 2010
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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.
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Rather than stretch her canvases Warboys hangs them loose, and lets them act as a stage backcloth for her works and performances.
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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.
Linda Constant: A Different Kind of P2P: The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad Linda Constant 2010
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She continued walking through the well-mannered backcloth, then, rounding a corner onto the main thoroughfare, the gardens ended abruptly.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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The noise was almost unreal, as if out of control, as the mosaic of white tops and shades of grey had a backcloth of a dark blue sea that seemed almost ominous.
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She and her selected helpers had been busy on the backcloth of the Nile at Sunset for their next theatrical production.
Twin Moons 2010
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It is against this backcloth that the Spanish budget-cutting has been announced, and it will be taken as a benchmark for other euro-zone countries with high budget deficits.
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