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▪ I. water-scape1 nonce-wd.
[scape n.1]
An escape from drowning.
1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 41 But this and other our Water scapes made that saying of Bias come to mind, Navigantes nec inter vivos nec inter mortuos esse numerandos.
▪ II. ˈwater-scape2
Also waterscape.
[f. water n., after landscape.]
A piece of scenery consisting of water. Also, a picture of such scenery.
1854Fairholt Dict. Terms Art, Water-scape, a term sometimes used to denote sea-views, in contradistinction to landscapes. 1860Hole Tour in Ireland xiii. (1892) 144 The landscape (or waterscape?) was so calm and still. 1886G. 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. 1901Punch 21 Sept. 224/1 Peeps of such landscapes and water⁓scapes as whet the appetite for the entire panorama. 1908Chesterton All Things Considered 31 The landscape (or waterscape) of my own romantic town. 1955R. Church Over Bridge i. 4 His aim was to establish a real aquarium, with fresh water-scape scenery of..mosses, rondures, recesses, mournful weeds. 1979Sci. 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. |