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backings

n. (plural of backing English)

Usage examples of "backings".

The looking-glasses lay in splinters on the floor—even their backings had been punched through.

They had pulled the framed prints from the wall and torn off the backings in their search.

Only on closer inspection, as he walked the length of the chamber, did he see that the carpets were worn almost to their backings in many places, the tapestries were moth-eaten, the velvets thinnapped and shiny, and the fine woods dry and cracked.

There were paper plates strewing the floor, cellophane wrappers and white pasteboard backings from old cupcakes, chicken bones in red-striped tubs streaked with cold grease.