backcloth in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for backcloth in the English»French Dictionary

backcloth N THEAT

backcloth fig

toile f de fond

Translations for backcloth in the French»English Dictionary

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toile de fond THEAT

backcloth, backdrop

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But there is an unhappy backcloth to this story.

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There is an emphasis in the interaction between the offenders mental map of spatial surroundings and the allotment of victims (target backcloth).

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In it there is an evocative language whose sensitivity could be extended into music and into the orchestral backcloth.

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I do this to provide the backcloth to the main purpose of this statement.

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Backcloth held by flying putti, side pilasters, wide arching cornice and, at the very top, a garlanded cartouche of arms.

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By the end the puzzling orange backcloth and sparseness of the staging were almost forgotten.

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It begins stunningly, with spangled peacock-green and midnight-blue walls the backcloth for the icons that defined mid-19th century concepts of beauty.

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Six dancers stand on a bare stage in chastely classical costumes, against an abstract backcloth.

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The first is that the working people who ought to be its protagonists are sketched as barely as a backcloth.

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Until the flats and the backcloth and the props are all in place, there's nowhere for the actors, the characters, to come to tell their stories.

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