wirescapen.
/ˈwʌɪəskeɪp/, U.S. /ˈwaɪ(ə)rˌskeɪp/ Scenery or a landscape dominated by overhead wires and pylons.
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beauty spot1846
picturesque1852
moonscape1907
mudscape1908
postcard land1918
cultural landscape1919
dunescape1928
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty1949
wirescape1951
AONB1957
Marlboro Country1961
roofscaping1962
1951 Archit. Rev. 110 377 Wire, lots of wire, lining streets, crossing fields,..reducing the endless variety of the human and natural scene to the common denominator—wirescape.
1978 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) 29 Sept. 7/1 I think we should be removing these unsightly wirescapes from the central precincts of the city.
1994 Daily Tel. 24 Aug. 18/3 The Countryside Commission struck a chord last week by saying that if we don't like pylons and overhead ‘wirescapes’, there is now no reason for us to have them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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