waterscape
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English
Etymology
From water + -scape. Compare Middle English watershipe (“a gathering of waters”), Old English wætersċipe (“a body of water”), Old Saxon watriscapum (“watercourse, watersource”), Middle Dutch waterschap (“watercourse, waterway”) (whence Dutch waterschap).
Noun
waterscape (plural waterscapes)
- An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.
- 2002, Lorenz Eitner, 19th century European painting: David to Cézanne:
- As early as 1898, Monet had thought of combining a series of such waterscapes into one wall-filling frieze […]
Translations
aquatic landscape
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Verb
waterscape (third-person singular simple present waterscapes, present participle waterscaping, simple past and past participle waterscaped)
- To create an aquatic landscape.