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Backcloth vs Sackcloth - What's the difference?

backcloth | sackcloth |

As nouns the difference between backcloth and sackcloth

is that backcloth is the painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop while sackcloth is a coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.

backcloth

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • the painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop

    • sackcloth

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A coarse hessian style of cloth used to make sacks.
  • (Usually paired with 'ashes'), garments worn as an act of penance. Now often used figuratively.
    • After he realised the gravity of his crime he spent some time wearing sackcloth and ashes.

    References

    * OED2