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English
Noun
back ground (plural back grounds)
- Obsolete form of background.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: , volume III, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 181–182:I hope she will recollect it, and be satisfied, as well she may, with moving the queen of a palace, though the king may appear best in the back ground, and as I have no desire to teize her, I shall never force your name upon her again.
, John Milner, The History and Survey of the Antiquities of Winchester, 3rd edition, volume II, Winchester: for James Robbins, , by D. E. Gilmour, ; London: Orr and Co, ; and Keating and Brown, , page 258:In the back ground is represented the city bridge, built by our saint, and the scene of one of his miracles.
1839, Castle Martyr: or A Tale of Old Ireland, volume II, London: Hugh Cunningham, , pages 107–108:But Anna was an enthusiast—in politics and religion—with a Joan d’Arc devotion, she cast every personal consideration in the back ground, and as far as will could make her, was ready to become an aftertype of La Pucelle d’Orleans.