- 1a painted piece of cloth that is hung behind the stage in a theater as part of the scenery
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- 2everything that can be seen around an event that is taking place, but which is not part of that event The mountains provided a dramatic backdrop for our picnic.
- 3the general conditions in which an event takes place, that sometimes help to explain that event It was against this backdrop of racial tension that the civil war began.
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