backdrop, greyness, juxtaposition, drabness, tracery, chequerboard, evocation, townscape, tableau, phantasmagoria, wittedness, danse macabre, grubbiness, excrescence, popery, garishness, crinoline, skyscape, eiderdown, counterpoint, yellow ocher, monumentality, gaslit, scrim, arioso, dinginess, trouser suit, cor anglais, valences, auguries, tapestry, grotesquery, divertissement, griminess, ochres, cacophonic, melodiousness, duologue, crenellations, acerbity, heathery, moorlands, spareness, impassivity, saturnalia, grot, chiaroscuro, crescendoes, ultramarine, mundanity, nightscape, brutalism, drear, cityscape, ashlar, dreich, chinoiserie, lacework, ghostliness, ghastliness, priggishness, peignoir, dowdiness, benignity, undertone, depiction, starkness, insipidity, plateaux, fanfares, eyrie, splodge, aestheticism, catherine wheel, duffel coat, idyll, presentiment, rotundity, centrepiece, insubstantiality, portents, winsomeness, leitmotiv, doomy, foreboding, spume, fustian, leitmotif, wishfulness, grand guignol, descant, fin de siecle, tableau vivant, weimar republic, battlement, pallette, allegoric, alpenglow, hotchpotch, handelian, ornateness, bedazzlement, backdrops, centerpiece, panorama, background, accessories, reminiscent, foreground, silhouette, springboard, vistas, metaphor, prelude, rainbow, repertoire, showcase, surround, instrumentality, keystone

scene, scenery

backdrop, background