backdrop has definitions from the field of theater
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[ noun ] (theater) scenery hung at back of stage

Used in print

(Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)

Out of this background of hunting and fishing , it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best : hunters in the field , fishermen in the stream , ducks and geese on_the_wing - almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape .

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scenery

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