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scenery|ˈsiːnərɪ|
[Alteration of scenary, as if f. scene + -ery. The word is not in Johnson, who gives only scenary.]
†1. Dramatic action; a moving exhibition of feeling. Obs.
1748Richardson Clarissa VII. 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. 1808Syd. Smith Peter Plymley's Lett. iii. Wks. 1859 II. 144/2 If there were any great scenery, and heroic feelings, any blaze of ancient 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.
2. a. The decoration of a theatre-stage, consisting of painted hangings, slides, etc., representing the scene of the action; theatre-scenes collectively. Also, that used in film and television.
1774Lond. Mag. Nov. 518/2 It is said that the scenery only, which has been painted on purpose for the Maid of the Oaks, cost 1500 l. 1789Twining Aristotle's Treat. Poetry i. 72 Sophocles increased the number of actors to three, and added the decoration of painted scenery. 1837J. F. Cooper England (ed. 2) III. 97 The chief merit [of the play] was the scenery. 1890All Year Round 29 Mar. 306 The dangers of flying flats and rolling scenery. 1959W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 127/1 Scenery, the various parts and accessories used on the set to represent the actual scene of an action. 1960O. Skilbeck ABC of Film & TV 11 Scenery which may be viewed in close-up must be more convincing than that of the theatre. 1961G. Millerson Technique Television Production 142 By special electronic equipment, we can place one camera's performers and/or scenery in the background picture provided by another picture source.
b. transf. and fig. So phr. part of the scenery.
1770Burke Pres. Discont. 12 To recommend this system to the people, a perspective view of the Court, gorgeously painted,..was exhibited to the gaping multitude... The whole scenery was exactly disposed to captivate those good souls, whose [etc.]. 1774J. Adams Diary 9 Oct., Wks. (1850) II. 395 Went..to the Romish chapel... The scenery and the music are so calculated to take in mankind, that I wonder the Reformation ever succeeded. 1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Tales, Mr. W. Tottle ii, ‘Take off the covers, Martha,’ said Mrs. Parsons, directing the shifting of the scenery with great anxiety. 1867F. D. Maurice Patriarchs & Law-givers vi. (ed. 4) 120 However shifting the scenery of a man's life may have been. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxix, Gwendolen was just then enjoying the scenery of her life. 1970N. Marsh When in Rome viii. 221 He..must often hang about the premises... Part of the scenery as it were. 1971‘H. Calvin’ Poison Chasers v. 65 Dai had mentioned her to me as an interesting part of the local scenery. 1977Times 4 July 12/4 Inexperienced Mabel..was allowed to sing the old things in harmony. I was, at first, only part of the scenery.
3. a. The general appearance of a place and its natural features, regarded from the picturesque point of view; the aggregate of picturesque features in a landscape.
1784Cowper 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. 1801Campbell Hohenlinden 8 But Linden saw another sight When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery. 1837Lockhart Scott I. viii. 265 He was so enraptured with the scenery of the lakes as to take a house in Keswick. 1871Mozley Univ. Serm. vi. (1876) 124 A kind of passion for scenery and natural beauty..has..gained an extraordinary power over people's minds. 1881Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. ii. iii. 194 Anyone with a well-stored memory is affected by historical scenery.
b. with defining word prefixed. Also applied to the varied aspect of clouds and sky.
1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 124 The magnificence of English park scenery. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. II. 48 The entire cloud and sun scenery was fully presented to us. 1897Outing (U.S.) 440/2 One of the most impressive pictures of tree-scenery that man ever beheld.
†c. Picturesqueness. Obs. rare.
1786Sir J. Reynolds Disc. xiii. Wks. 1797 I. 287 As such buildings depart from regularity, they now and then acquire something of scenery by this accident.
4. (With a and pl.) A landscape or view; a picturesque scene; also, the pictorial representation of a landscape. Now rare.
1777J. Forster Voy. round World II. 367 The pleasure of contemplating a great variety of rich sceneries, made us some amends for the wretchedness of our diet. 1794A. Young Trav. France I. 83 A very little cleaning would make here a delicious scenery. 1814Sporting Mag. XLIV. 66 Beautiful Indian sceneries from the skilful hand and unsophisticated pallet of this worthy academician. 1851Carlyle Sterling iii. iv, At Naples next,..was due admiration of the sceneries and antiquities. 1879Dixon Windsor I. i. 3 The houses of famous men, the sceneries of great events. |