Meanings
plural beachscapes
- 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 Biography1 more example
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
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
- Proto-Germanic*bakiz
- Proto-West Germanic*baki
- Old Englishbæċ
- Middle Englishbache
- Englishbeach
- Englishlandscapebf.
- Englishbeachscape
Cite this entry
beachscape. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beachscape
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