Translations for „backcloth“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

backcloth [ˈbækˌklɒθ, Am -klɑ:θ] N Brit a. fig

backcloth

фон m

backcloth

декора́ция f

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

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I use high quality linen for my backcloth, so the curtain hangs like a dream.

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Nature is no longer a backcloth.

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As a matter of emphasis, these four principles were erected against the backcloth of free market strategies.

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The course is a mixture of heath and woodland, the tree-lined fairways have a particularly splendid backcloth of colour with attractive areas of heather and many species of wild flowers.

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

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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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It had a spotlight fashioned from newspaper, tape and wire, and a backcloth purloined from the airing cupboard.

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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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