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Backcloth, flat painted canvas, or a plain surface on which light can be projected. Hanging at the back of the stage, suspended from the grid, it was used in combination with wings to form a wing-and-backcloth scene. It was replaced by the box-set and is now used only in ballet, opera, and pantomime. It is known in America as a backdrop.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

backcloth •broth, cloth, froth, Goth, moth, Roth, wrath •Sabaoth • Visigoth •backcloth, sackcloth •saddlecloth • waxcloth • grasscloth •haircloth • J-cloth • sailcloth •tablecloth • facecloth • cheesecloth •dishcloth • washcloth • oilcloth •loincloth • hawkmoth

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	BACKCLOTH TO SEW UP WIN; Dunlop's hope to bounce back in Chepstow test.(RACING) Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England); 6/29/1999
	Backcloth to regain the thread; RACING.(Sport) Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 6/28/1999
	RACING: BACKCLOTH TO SEW UP WIN Dunlop's hope to bounce back in Chepstow test Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England); 6/29/1999