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backdrop

 noun
     
back‧drop [countable]
1 literary the scenery behind something that you are looking at
backdrop to
The sea made a splendid backdrop to the garden.
2 the conditions or situation in which something happens
against a backdrop of something
a love story set against a backdrop of war and despair
3APT a painted cloth hung across the back of a stage
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