Backcloth
backdrop (def 1).
Historical Examples
In Marius the background is merely a backcloth for mental poses plastiques.
Masques & Phases Robert Ross
Requires a dab of red in all that backcloth of green and black, doesnt it?
Twos and Threes G. B. Stern
noun
a large painted curtain hanging at the back of a stage set Also called backdrop
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