BACKCLOTH

backdrop, background, backcloth

(noun) scenery hung at back of stage

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

backcloth (plural backcloths)

The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.

Anagrams

• clothback

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.

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