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backdrop definition

☆ back·drop (-dräp′)

noun

  1. a curtain hung at the back of a stage, often painted to represent some scene
  2. background or setting, as of an event

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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