beachscape

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noun

A beach landscape.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounbeachscape (plural beachscapes)

plural beachscapes

  1. A beach landscape.

    ...crowded with dozens of people and with a backdrop of photographically accurate buildings — the antithesis of a Whistler beachscape.

    2001, Stanley Weintraub, Whistler: A Biography
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    He is a realist as well as a Romantic, as you can see when you look at the marvel of this exhibition, his great Dawn After the Wreck (c.1841), a beachscape of despair that invites direct comparison with the Romantic art of Turner's German contemporary Caspar David Friedrich.

    2009 January 17, Jonathan Jones, “Turner Watercolours”, in The Guardian

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
  2. Proto-Germanic*bakiz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*baki
  4. Old Englishbæċ
  5. Middle Englishbache
  6. Englishbeach
  7. Englishlandscapebf.
  8. Englishbeachscape

From beach + -scape.

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APA

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Chicago

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