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单词 streetscape
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streetscapen.

Brit. /ˈstriːtskeɪp/, U.S. /ˈstritˌskeɪp/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: street n., -scape comb. form.
Etymology: < street n. + -scape comb. form. Compare earlier street scene n. at street n. and adj. Compounds 4.
A view or prospect provided by a city street or streets.In quot. 1833 after ‘glimmering landscape’ in Thomas Gray's Elegy written in a Country Churchyard (1751).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > view or scenery > others
street scene1673
skyscape1811
streetscape1833
cityscape1856
skyline1875
townscape1880
roofscape1891
roadscape1899
farmscape1922
manscape1927
slumscape1947
1833 T. J. Dibdin Last Lays l 136 Sepulchre tolls the knell of market-day... Now fades the glimmering streetscape on the sight.
1856 Househ. Words 8 Mar. 174/1 He..half closes one eye to look at the street-scape as though it were a glass of generous port.
1924 Glasgow Herald 8 Mar. 9 Where aerial invaders left ugly..scars in the streetscape noble new buildings have already appeared.
1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 770/2 Giorgio Grassi and others have designed housing blocks as long arcaded streetscapes.
2005 K. Ascher The Works: Anat. of City i. i. 18 The street signs, parking meters, streetlights, trees, and trash cans..that give the streetscape its unmistakably urban flavor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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