sceneryn.

Brit.

/ˈsiːn(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈsin(ə)ri/

Forms:

α. 1600s– scenary (now nonstandard).

β. 1700s scenerie, 1700s– scenery.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on an Italian lexical item. Etymons: scene n., -ary suffix¹.

Etymology: < scene n. + -ary suffix¹, in sense 1 after Italian scenario scenario n.The β. forms show remodelling after formations in -ery suffix.

†1. An outline or synopsis of the plot of a play, etc.; = scenario n. 2a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > outline of scenes

scenery1683

scenario1768

scene plot1797

1683 J. Dryden Vindic. ‘Duke of Guise’ 42 I writ the first and third Acts of Oedipus, and drew the Scenary of the whole Play.

1695 J. Dryden in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica Pref. p. xliv To make a Sketch, or a more perfect Model of a Picture, is in the Language of Poets, to draw up the Scenary of a Play.

1735 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) iii. 328 (note) The Edition of Shakespear..took up near two years more in the drudgery of comparing Impressions, rectifying the Scenary, &c.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Scenary,..the disposition and consecution of the scenes of a play.

a. The items used on a theatre stage to represent the location or setting in which the action of a play or other dramatic production takes place, such as painted scenes, backcloths, built set, stage furniture, etc.; the appearance given to the stage by such items. Now also with reference to film and television. Cf. scene n. 3a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > scenery

scene1540

scenery?1707

scene work1728

ethereality1819

décor1897

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > others

scenery?1707

fader1931

titler1933

storyboard1941

?1707 E. Settle Siege of Troy To Rdr. sig. A3 Its Appearance in Scenary and Machinary, not inferior to any of the most celebrated Operas.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 180. ⁋3 All the Furniture of her Visiting Apartment are no more her's, than the Scenery of a Play are the proper Goods of the Actress.

1789 T. Twining tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry i. 72 Sophocles increased the number of actors to three, and added the decoration of painted scenery [Gk. τρεῖς δὲ καὶ σκηνογραϕίαν Σοϕοκλῆς].

1837 J. F. Cooper England (ed. 2) III. 97 The chief merit [of the play] was the scenery.

1890 All Year Round 29 Mar. 306 The dangers of flying flats and rolling scenery.

1923 C. J. De Goveia Community Playhouse vii. 80 Just inside the proscenium arch stand two strips of scenery, one on each side of the stage, and usually with a third piece, a border, stretched across the top.

1960 O. Skilbeck ABC of Film & TV Working Terms 11 Scenery which may be viewed in close-up must be more convincing than that of the theatre.

2008 Victorian July 13/3 Getting scenery in and out was always difficult.

b. figurative and in extended use.

ΚΠ

1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles lix. 252 An endless Ritual with minute Directions about a hundred little Matters relating to the Pins and Tacks, the Boards and Curtains of the Tabernacle, and all that Scenery of Puerile Worship, which a wise Man would neither command nor practise.

1774 J. Adams Diary 9 Oct. (1961) II. 150 Went..to the Romish Chappell... The Scenery and the Musick is so callculated to take in Mankind that I wonder, the Reformation ever succeeded.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 55 ‘Take off the covers, Martha,’ said Mrs. Parsons, directing the shifting of the scenery with great anxiety.

1867 F. D. Maurice Patriarchs & Law-givers (ed. 4) vi. 120 However shifting the scenery of a man's life may have been.

1982 G. Grigson Private Art 90 At night..crossing the auditorium and the footlights into the scenery of dreams.

2012 Guelph (Ont.) Mercury (Nexis) 19 Jan. n16 The battle between two Democrats in Ohio's primary is just the scenery for this tale of ambition, loyalty, sex, betrayal and abuse of power.

a. The features of a place, landscape, or view considered in terms of their appearance or attractiveness, spec. picturesque natural landscapes. Frequently with preceding modifying word, as coastal scenery, mountain scenery, etc. Also figurative and in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > [noun] > scenery

scenery1712

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 417. ¶3 A Poet..must gain a due Relish of the Works of Nature, and be thoroughly conversant in the various Scenary of a Country Life.

1722 Brit. Jrnl. 17 Nov. 2/1 If..all the celestial Scenery of Delight, a blessed Immortality, God, and Glory, were set, as it were, before his Eyes.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 741 He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and..Calls the delightful scen'ry all his own. His are the mountains, and the vallies his.

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. viii. 265 He was so enraptured with the scenery of the lakes as to take a house in Keswick.

1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 21 June in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) v. 332 The entire cloud and sun-scenery was fully presented to us.

1898 M. Davitt Life & Progress in Australasia li. 282 There is no other coastal scenery in the world to equal this in changing vistas of loveliness and grandeur.

1924 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 14 146 The bleak and rugged character of the scenery of northern Britain.

1953 Life 14 Sept. 44/2 I took his arm while he walked, enjoying the autumnal scenary.

1979 Jrnl. Soc. Architect. Hist. 38 301/1 This is the America of the confirmed architecture buff, directly responding, camera in hand, to the urban scenery around him.

2003 Food & Trav. July 17/1 If lying on a beach for two weeks makes your legs twitch, head for some of Europe's most ridiculously picturesque mountain scenery.

b. As a count noun: a landscape or view; a picturesque scene; (also) the pictorial representation of a landscape. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > landscape-painting > a landscape or view

landscape1598

prospective1638

prospect1656

surveya1684

scenery1814

1750 Whitehall Evening-post 19–21 July The Moon in full Splendour, and her Reflections on the Water; the Fire from Hoath Light-House, and the Illuminations on the Land, made a most beautiful mixed Scenery.

1788 A. Young Jrnl. 1 Sept. in Trav. France (1792) i. 83 A very little cleaning would make here a delicious scenery.

1814 Sporting Mag. 44 66 Beautiful Indian sceneries from the skilful hand and unsophisticated pallet of this worthy academician.

1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. xi. 293 At Naples next,..was due admiration of the sceneries and antiquities.

1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor I. i. 3 The houses of famous men, the sceneries of great events.

1944 Pop. Mech. Apr. 50 a/2 (advt.) Mirrored framed pictures, religious, patriotic, sceneries. Samples $1.00.

1999 New Straits Times (Malaysia) 19 Oct. 14/4 Travelling past one of the most beautiful sceneries I have ever seen as we drove out of Canberra last week, I instinctively slowed down.

†c. The quality of being scenic; picturesqueness. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > picturesqueness

scenery1786

picturesqueness1794

1786 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. 287 As such buildings depart from regularity, they now and then acquire something of scenery by this accident.

†4. Dramatic action; demonstrative or ostentatious behaviour; exhibition of feeling. Cf. scene n. 11. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > spectacular, sensational, or dramatic display > [noun]

stage-work1649

scenery1726

theatricalness1727

dramatizing1808

show1822

theatricality1837

pyrotechny1845

theatricalism1854

sensational1861

sensationalism1862

sensationism1862

theatricism1872

theatricalization1875

dramaticism1878

dramatism1880

spectacularity1883

spectacularism1888

theatre1926

son et lumière1968

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > outward exhibition > moving exhibition

scenery1726

1726 London Jrnl. 10 Dec. Had he lived in these Days, what Bundles of ingenious Scenery must he have met with, that could serve for no other Use in Nature, than to drain the Author's Common-Place Book.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lix. 213 When he opened it, never was such a piece of scenery. He trembled like a devil at receiving it: Fumbled at the seal, his fingers in a palsy.

1807 ‘P. Plymley’ Three More Lett. on Catholics iii. 7 If there were any great scenery, any heroic feelings, any blaze of antient virtue, any exalted death, any termination of England that would be ever remembered, ever honoured in that western world, where Liberty is now retiring, conquest would be more tolerable, and ruin more sweet.

†5. The environment or surroundings in which the action of a play, story, etc., takes place; the setting. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) ii. 250 (note) The progress of the sound..and the scenary here of the bordering regions,..are imitated from Virg. Aen. 7. on the sounding the horn of Alecto.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Scenary,..the representation of the place in which an action is performed.

1808 Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd I. 109 The plot, characters, and scenary of this exquisite transcript from nature.

Phrases

P1.

change of scenery n. a move to different surroundings, esp. in order to improve one's mental or physical well being; = change of scene n. at scene n. Phrases 6.

ΚΠ

1743 Universal Spectator 18 June At this Season of the Year a Retirement into the Country is what almost all Persons covet, as it is a Change of Scenery.

1824 E. Sutleffe Med. & Surg. Cases 231 Change of scenery, and travelling by short stages, for the benefit of rough riding over the stones.

1863 Bell's Life in London 3 Oct. 4/4 The southern division were well represented by a few business tourists who endeavour to amalgamate profit with pleasure, by mixing their ‘toddy’ and their speculations with a change of scenery.

1929 Times 2 Dec. 8/4 If river buses plied through the dock area slum dwellers could always get a breath of fresh air and a change of scenery for a few pence.

1941 ‘Gypsy Rose Lee’ G-String Murders xvi. 248 Nothing like a change of scenery when things get hot.

1991 Kaatskill Life Summer 3/1 In the past, I have been one of those voyagers, demanding little more than a change of scenery.

2002 Nebraskaland May 10/1 Others want a change of scenery without losing the creature comforts they have come to expect.

P2.

part of the scenery n. a person who or thing which is integral to, or always present in, a particular situation or setting; esp. one so familiar as be taken for granted or ignored.

ΚΠ

1865 H. Jones Regular Swiss Round 289 In giving you my impressions I cannot leave out these [sc. spiders and lizards]. They are part of the scenery. And so are the fish.

1906 Lady's Realm 19 448/2 These mountain roads, where robberies were of so frequent occurrence as to become part of the scenery, as it were.

1933 Princeton Alumni Weekly 20 Jan. 351/2 Cornie is thoroughly sold on California, the climate, and everything else in it, so I guess he is due to become part of the scenery, permanently.

2012 N. Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. 8 Over time..he was accepted for the most part, considered part of the scenery.

P3. colloquial (chiefly North American). to chew (the) scenery: (of an actor) to perform in an overly theatrical manner; to overact.

ΚΠ

1878 Cincinnati Commerc. Tribune 3 Nov. 12/3 The Henck's Opera-house Company goes out on the road this week to Maysville, Lexington and Louisville, Ky. ‘Roaring Ralph’ Douglas will chew scenery..in each of the above named places.

1880 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 24 Nov. 1/1 Mrs. Hattie Morris, wife of the manager, is playing an engagement at the Coliseum, Detroit, where she is nightly chewing scenery in support of that stentorian-voiced histrion, Mr. J. Z. Little.

1942 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 8 Mar. 11/2 He can do more with his back to the camera than a lot of actors chewing the scenery full view. He never overplays.

1999 N.Y. Mag. 8 Feb. 74/1 He doesn't just chew the scenery; he stripmines it.

2012 Daily Tel. 20 July 37/6 Jack Palance chews the scenery memorably as Curly.

Compounds

scenery-chewing adj. and n. colloquial (chiefly North American) (a) adj. (of a performance, etc.) characterized by overacting; melodramatic; excessively emotional or sensational; (of an actor) that overacts; (b) n. the action or practice of overacting.

ΚΠ

1894 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Leader 20 May 9/5 They are refreshing in so far as they differ from the stilted and scenery chewing methods that fate seems to have resigned us to in plays now turned out for popular audiences.

1901 Munsey's Mag. Feb. 778/1 He follows the prompt book without any of the scenery chewing that others might think went with the lines.

1936 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 29 Aug. b5/7 This musical comedy revolving around a jobless cabaret singer and a scenery-chewing Shakespearian actor.

1997 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 July 94/1 Pulp clichés pass for dialogue and scenery chewing for acting.

2011 Vanity Fair Dec. 110/2 Oldman delivers a fantastic performance, reminding you how talented this actor is when he's not in scenery-chewing mode.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scenery
释义	sceneryn. Brit. /ˈsiːn(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈsin(ə)ri/ Forms: α. 1600s– scenary (now nonstandard). β. 1700s scenerie, 1700s– scenery. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on an Italian lexical item. Etymons: scene n., -ary suffix¹. Etymology: < scene n. + -ary suffix¹, in sense 1 after Italian scenario scenario n.The β. forms show remodelling after formations in -ery suffix. †1. An outline or synopsis of the plot of a play, etc.; = scenario n. 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > written or printed text > [noun] > outline of scenes scenery1683 scenario1768 scene plot1797 1683 J. Dryden Vindic. ‘Duke of Guise’ 42 I writ the first and third Acts of Oedipus, and drew the Scenary of the whole Play. 1695 J. Dryden in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica Pref. p. xliv To make a Sketch, or a more perfect Model of a Picture, is in the Language of Poets, to draw up the Scenary of a Play. 1735 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) iii. 328 (note) The Edition of Shakespear..took up near two years more in the drudgery of comparing Impressions, rectifying the Scenary, &c. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Scenary,..the disposition and consecution of the scenes of a play. 2. a. The items used on a theatre stage to represent the location or setting in which the action of a play or other dramatic production takes place, such as painted scenes, backcloths, built set, stage furniture, etc.; the appearance given to the stage by such items. Now also with reference to film and television. Cf. scene n. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > theatrical equipment or accessories > [noun] > scenery scene1540 scenery?1707 scene work1728 ethereality1819 décor1897 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > others scenery?1707 fader1931 titler1933 storyboard1941 ?1707 E. Settle Siege of Troy To Rdr. sig. A3 Its Appearance in Scenary and Machinary, not inferior to any of the most celebrated Operas. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 180. ⁋3 All the Furniture of her Visiting Apartment are no more her's, than the Scenery of a Play are the proper Goods of the Actress. 1789 T. Twining tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry i. 72 Sophocles increased the number of actors to three, and added the decoration of painted scenery [Gk. τρεῖς δὲ καὶ σκηνογραϕίαν Σοϕοκλῆς]. 1837 J. F. Cooper England (ed. 2) III. 97 The chief merit [of the play] was the scenery. 1890 All Year Round 29 Mar. 306 The dangers of flying flats and rolling scenery. 1923 C. J. De Goveia Community Playhouse vii. 80 Just inside the proscenium arch stand two strips of scenery, one on each side of the stage, and usually with a third piece, a border, stretched across the top. 1960 O. Skilbeck ABC of Film & TV Working Terms 11 Scenery which may be viewed in close-up must be more convincing than that of the theatre. 2008 Victorian July 13/3 Getting scenery in and out was always difficult. b. figurative and in extended use. ΚΠ 1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles lix. 252 An endless Ritual with minute Directions about a hundred little Matters relating to the Pins and Tacks, the Boards and Curtains of the Tabernacle, and all that Scenery of Puerile Worship, which a wise Man would neither command nor practise. 1774 J. Adams Diary 9 Oct. (1961) II. 150 Went..to the Romish Chappell... The Scenery and the Musick is so callculated to take in Mankind that I wonder, the Reformation ever succeeded. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 55 ‘Take off the covers, Martha,’ said Mrs. Parsons, directing the shifting of the scenery with great anxiety. 1867 F. D. Maurice Patriarchs & Law-givers (ed. 4) vi. 120 However shifting the scenery of a man's life may have been. 1982 G. Grigson Private Art 90 At night..crossing the auditorium and the footlights into the scenery of dreams. 2012 Guelph (Ont.) Mercury (Nexis) 19 Jan. n16 The battle between two Democrats in Ohio's primary is just the scenery for this tale of ambition, loyalty, sex, betrayal and abuse of power. 3. a. The features of a place, landscape, or view considered in terms of their appearance or attractiveness, spec. picturesque natural landscapes. Frequently with preceding modifying word, as coastal scenery, mountain scenery, etc. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > [noun] > scenery scenery1712 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 417. ¶3 A Poet..must gain a due Relish of the Works of Nature, and be thoroughly conversant in the various Scenary of a Country Life. 1722 Brit. Jrnl. 17 Nov. 2/1 If..all the celestial Scenery of Delight, a blessed Immortality, God, and Glory, were set, as it were, before his Eyes. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 741 He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and..Calls the delightful scen'ry all his own. His are the mountains, and the vallies his. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. viii. 265 He was so enraptured with the scenery of the lakes as to take a house in Keswick. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 21 June in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) v. 332 The entire cloud and sun-scenery was fully presented to us. 1898 M. Davitt Life & Progress in Australasia li. 282 There is no other coastal scenery in the world to equal this in changing vistas of loveliness and grandeur. 1924 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 14 146 The bleak and rugged character of the scenery of northern Britain. 1953 Life 14 Sept. 44/2 I took his arm while he walked, enjoying the autumnal scenary. 1979 Jrnl. Soc. Architect. Hist. 38 301/1 This is the America of the confirmed architecture buff, directly responding, camera in hand, to the urban scenery around him. 2003 Food & Trav. July 17/1 If lying on a beach for two weeks makes your legs twitch, head for some of Europe's most ridiculously picturesque mountain scenery. b. As a count noun: a landscape or view; a picturesque scene; (also) the pictorial representation of a landscape. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > landscape-painting > a landscape or view landscape1598 prospective1638 prospect1656 view1662 surveya1684 scenery1814 1750 Whitehall Evening-post 19–21 July The Moon in full Splendour, and her Reflections on the Water; the Fire from Hoath Light-House, and the Illuminations on the Land, made a most beautiful mixed Scenery. 1788 A. Young Jrnl. 1 Sept. in Trav. France (1792) i. 83 A very little cleaning would make here a delicious scenery. 1814 Sporting Mag. 44 66 Beautiful Indian sceneries from the skilful hand and unsophisticated pallet of this worthy academician. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. xi. 293 At Naples next,..was due admiration of the sceneries and antiquities. 1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor I. i. 3 The houses of famous men, the sceneries of great events. 1944 Pop. Mech. Apr. 50 a/2 (advt.) Mirrored framed pictures, religious, patriotic, sceneries. Samples $1.00. 1999 New Straits Times (Malaysia) 19 Oct. 14/4 Travelling past one of the most beautiful sceneries I have ever seen as we drove out of Canberra last week, I instinctively slowed down. †c. The quality of being scenic; picturesqueness. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > picturesqueness scenery1786 picturesqueness1794 1786 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. 287 As such buildings depart from regularity, they now and then acquire something of scenery by this accident. †4. Dramatic action; demonstrative or ostentatious behaviour; exhibition of feeling. Cf. scene n. 11. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > spectacular, sensational, or dramatic display > [noun] stage-work1649 scenery1726 theatricalness1727 dramatizing1808 show1822 theatricality1837 pyrotechny1845 theatricalism1854 sensational1861 sensationalism1862 sensationism1862 theatricism1872 theatricalization1875 dramaticism1878 dramatism1880 spectacularity1883 spectacularism1888 theatre1926 son et lumière1968 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > outward exhibition > moving exhibition scenery1726 1726 London Jrnl. 10 Dec. Had he lived in these Days, what Bundles of ingenious Scenery must he have met with, that could serve for no other Use in Nature, than to drain the Author's Common-Place Book. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lix. 213 When he opened it, never was such a piece of scenery. He trembled like a devil at receiving it: Fumbled at the seal, his fingers in a palsy. 1807 ‘P. Plymley’ Three More Lett. on Catholics iii. 7 If there were any great scenery, any heroic feelings, any blaze of antient virtue, any exalted death, any termination of England that would be ever remembered, ever honoured in that western world, where Liberty is now retiring, conquest would be more tolerable, and ruin more sweet. †5. The environment or surroundings in which the action of a play, story, etc., takes place; the setting. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) ii. 250 (note) The progress of the sound..and the scenary here of the bordering regions,..are imitated from Virg. Aen. 7. on the sounding the horn of Alecto. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Scenary,..the representation of the place in which an action is performed. 1808 Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd I. 109 The plot, characters, and scenary of this exquisite transcript from nature. Phrases P1. change of scenery n. a move to different surroundings, esp. in order to improve one's mental or physical well being; = change of scene n. at scene n. Phrases 6. ΚΠ 1743 Universal Spectator 18 June At this Season of the Year a Retirement into the Country is what almost all Persons covet, as it is a Change of Scenery. 1824 E. Sutleffe Med. & Surg. Cases 231 Change of scenery, and travelling by short stages, for the benefit of rough riding over the stones. 1863 Bell's Life in London 3 Oct. 4/4 The southern division were well represented by a few business tourists who endeavour to amalgamate profit with pleasure, by mixing their ‘toddy’ and their speculations with a change of scenery. 1929 Times 2 Dec. 8/4 If river buses plied through the dock area slum dwellers could always get a breath of fresh air and a change of scenery for a few pence. 1941 ‘Gypsy Rose Lee’ G-String Murders xvi. 248 Nothing like a change of scenery when things get hot. 1991 Kaatskill Life Summer 3/1 In the past, I have been one of those voyagers, demanding little more than a change of scenery. 2002 Nebraskaland May 10/1 Others want a change of scenery without losing the creature comforts they have come to expect. P2. part of the scenery n. a person who or thing which is integral to, or always present in, a particular situation or setting; esp. one so familiar as be taken for granted or ignored. ΚΠ 1865 H. Jones Regular Swiss Round 289 In giving you my impressions I cannot leave out these [sc. spiders and lizards]. They are part of the scenery. And so are the fish. 1906 Lady's Realm 19 448/2 These mountain roads, where robberies were of so frequent occurrence as to become part of the scenery, as it were. 1933 Princeton Alumni Weekly 20 Jan. 351/2 Cornie is thoroughly sold on California, the climate, and everything else in it, so I guess he is due to become part of the scenery, permanently. 2012 N. Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. 8 Over time..he was accepted for the most part, considered part of the scenery. P3. colloquial (chiefly North American). to chew (the) scenery: (of an actor) to perform in an overly theatrical manner; to overact. ΚΠ 1878 Cincinnati Commerc. Tribune 3 Nov. 12/3 The Henck's Opera-house Company goes out on the road this week to Maysville, Lexington and Louisville, Ky. ‘Roaring Ralph’ Douglas will chew scenery..in each of the above named places. 1880 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 24 Nov. 1/1 Mrs. Hattie Morris, wife of the manager, is playing an engagement at the Coliseum, Detroit, where she is nightly chewing scenery in support of that stentorian-voiced histrion, Mr. J. Z. Little. 1942 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 8 Mar. 11/2 He can do more with his back to the camera than a lot of actors chewing the scenery full view. He never overplays. 1999 N.Y. Mag. 8 Feb. 74/1 He doesn't just chew the scenery; he stripmines it. 2012 Daily Tel. 20 July 37/6 Jack Palance chews the scenery memorably as Curly. Compounds scenery-chewing adj. and n. colloquial (chiefly North American) (a) adj. (of a performance, etc.) characterized by overacting; melodramatic; excessively emotional or sensational; (of an actor) that overacts; (b) n. the action or practice of overacting. ΚΠ 1894 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Leader 20 May 9/5 They are refreshing in so far as they differ from the stilted and scenery chewing methods that fate seems to have resigned us to in plays now turned out for popular audiences. 1901 Munsey's Mag. Feb. 778/1 He follows the prompt book without any of the scenery chewing that others might think went with the lines. 1936 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 29 Aug. b5/7 This musical comedy revolving around a jobless cabaret singer and a scenery-chewing Shakespearian actor. 1997 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 July 94/1 Pulp clichés pass for dialogue and scenery chewing for acting. 2011 Vanity Fair Dec. 110/2 Oldman delivers a fantastic performance, reminding you how talented this actor is when he's not in scenery-chewing mode. 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