"back-cloth" meaning in All languages combined

See back-cloth on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: back-cloths [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} back-cloth (plural back-cloths)
  1. Alternative spelling of backcloth Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: backcloth
    Sense id: en-back-cloth-en-noun-y5m5lZce Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:",
          "text": "At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the \"Premier Line\" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.",
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