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beachscape en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bakiz Proto-West Germanic *baki Old English bæċ Middle English bache English beach English landscapebf. English -scape English beachscape From beach + -scape.

Meanings

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:
   • 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:

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