Associations to the word «Backdrop»

Wiktionary

BACKDROP, noun. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
BACKDROP, noun. The setting or background of a historical event.
BACKDROP, verb. (transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.

Dictionary definition

BACKDROP, noun. Scenery hung at back of stage.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope