"backcloth" meaning in English

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        "2": "back",
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      "expansion": "back + cloth",
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  "etymology_text": "From back + cloth.",
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    {
      "form": "backcloths",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203:",
          "text": "Every day the coast looked the same, as though we had not moved; but we passed various places - trading places - with names like Gran’ Bassam, Little Popo, names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister backcloth.",
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        "The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop."
      ],
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          "scenery",
          "scenery"
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          "stage",
          "stage"
        ],
        [
          "backdrop",
          "backdrop"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "backcloth"
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  "etymology_text": "From back + cloth.",
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          "text": "Every day the coast looked the same, as though we had not moved; but we passed various places - trading places - with names like Gran’ Bassam, Little Popo, names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister backcloth.",
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          "backdrop"
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