backdrop vs locale

backdrop

noun
  • An image that serves as a visual background. 

  • A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage. 

  • The setting or background of an acted performance. 

  • Any background situation. 

verb
  • To serve as a backdrop for. 

locale

noun
  • The place where something happens. 

  • The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, currency and time formats, character encoding etc. 

  • A partially ordered set with the following additional axiomatic properties: any finite subset of it has a meet, any arbitrary subset of it has a join, and distributivity, which states that a binary meet distributes with respect to an arbitrary join. (Note: locales are just like frames except that the category of locales is opposite to the category of frames.) 

How often have the words backdrop and locale occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )