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单词 mountainscape
释义

mountainscapen.

Brit. /ˈmaʊntᵻnskeɪp/, U.S. /ˈmaʊnt(ə)nˌskeɪp/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mountain n., -scape comb. form.
Etymology: < mountain n. + -scape comb. form, after landscape n., seascape n.
A picturesque view of a mountainous area. Also: a pictorial representation of mountain scenery.
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1937 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 23 Oct. 6/2 It might well be, Conway thought, the most terrifying mountainscape in the world.
1957 A. Ginsberg Let. 1 Sept. in A. Ginsberg & L. Ginsberg Family Business (2001) 69 This island very interesting, since it has great variety of landscape, mountainscape, seascape, & cliffs.
1958 Times 5 July 6/5 Brooches and bracelets with carved deer and chamois delicately poised beneath trees against a mountainscape.
1970 P. Anderson Tau Zero 73 She had stowed away the silk draperies that softened bulkheads and overhead, the low-legged table she had made to hold a Han Dynasty bowl with water and a single stone, the scroll with its serene mountainscape and her grandfather's calligraphy, the clothes, the sewing kit, the bamboo flute.
1991 J. Ashbery Flow Chart v. 176 Then I'll weep at mountainscapes, if it isn't too late.
2000 Time Internat. (Electronic ed.) 3 Apr. [The Mustang kingdom's] 600-year-old royal dynasty and 14th-century walled capital of Lo Manthang, set amid a starkly beautiful arid mountainscape, have made it a magnet for high-altitude adventurers.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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