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wirescape|ˈwaɪəskeɪp|
[f. wire n. + scape n.3, after landscape.]
Scenery, or a scene, dominated by overhead wires and their supports.
1951Archit. Rev. CX. 377 Wire, lots of wire, lining streets, crossing fields, acting as totems in villages and skeleton umbrellas on towns, by reducing the endless variety of the human and natural scene to the common denominator— wirescape—has made a dreadful uniformity out of the world it seeks to unite. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Jan. 16/1 Each year the demands of the new industrial revolution gnaw away more insistently at the countryside... How many of us realize the Wirescape that impends? 1965New Statesman 5 Nov. 713/1 The visual squalor, of which a notable feature is the appalling wirescape, of New York's periphery. 1969E. Sandon View into Village x. 86 In the street is also to be seen that typically modern feature—an appalling wirescape. 1978Gold Coast Bulletin (Austral.) 29 Sept. 7/1, I think we should be removing these unsightly wirescapes from the central precincts of the city. |