retroscape

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noun

A landscape or setting filled with things from the past.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounretroscape (plural retroscapes)

plural retroscapes

  1. A landscape or setting filled with things from the past.

    In Ireland, the Titanic is resurfacing once more, in a retroscape dedicated to the greatest new product failure in history.

    2006, Stephen Brown, Consuming Books: The Marketing And Consumption of Literature, page 202
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    Retro-assimilation has strong appeal in today's climate of social turmoil, transformation and global threats: we are irresistibly drawn to its retroscapes, its nostalgic memories of safer and simpler times.

    2008, Anna Haebich, Spinning the dream: assimilation in Australia 1950-1970, page 8

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retroscape. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/retroscape

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