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Backdrop   /bˈækdrˌɑp/   Listen
noun
backdrop  n.  
1.
The scenery hung at back of stage. Also called in Britain backcloth.
Synonyms: background, backcloth
2.
The background, setting, or circumstances of an event; as, the backdrop for the summit meeting.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Backdrop" Quotes from Famous Books



... upward, scanning the velvet backdrop of frosty white points of light against which the slender, silverish, almost wingless form stood framed. More stars than a man could visit in a lifetime! And some already ...
— Next Door, Next World • Robert Donald Locke
... instant, the stars, which had literally not been there before, filled the screen with a blaze of splendor against the black velvet backdrop of normal space. Dead in the center, brighter than all the rest, Ertado's Star, the sun of Tanith, burned yellowly. The light from it was ...
— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper


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