单词 | waterscape |
释义 | waterscapen.2 (A picture of) a view or piece of scenery consisting largely of water. Cf. landscape n. 1a, 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > [noun] > scenery consisting of waterscape1826 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > view or scenery > of water sea-view1790 seascape1806 waterscape1826 riverscape1854 marinescape1928 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > a painting of the sea or water sea-piece1681 water1706 water piece1761 sea-view1781 seascape1799 marine1817 waterscape1826 riverscape1884 1826 New-Eng. Galaxy 29 Dec. Once I became fairly wearied out in eyeing, day to day, on a water-scape, an angler sit so unmovingly, without a single nibble. 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro II. x. 92 All the land and waterscape painters hate him—but, above all, the race of portrait painters. 1886 G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1935) 240 I may be able some day to let you have a better waterscape from the Dargle or somewhere near Dublin. 1908 G. K. Chesterton All Things Considered 31 The landscape (or waterscape) of my own romantic town. 1979 Sci. Amer. Nov. 39/1 Good maps show the virgin waterscape, the snow depth, the detail of the complex arteries that bring the water to San Francisco and to Los Angeles. 2003 A. McCall Smith Portuguese Irregular Verbs (2004) 110 They boarded a vaporetto and were soon heading out across the lagoon, through that waterscape of legend. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : † water-scapen.1 < see also |
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