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bloodscape en · NOUN

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Etymology

From blood + -scape.

Meanings

1. A scene of carnage and devastation.
   • Over the horizon, the red moon stood like a blot, an imputation of evil, on the outraged background of the stars. It turned the surrounding terrain into a dank bloodscape, full of crimson and evanescent forms like uncomprehended murders . 1977, Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane, Sienna Cameron:
   • The last thing Dash saw before something blunt and hard hit the back of his neck was a nightmare bloodscape misted by hot tears. 2009, Robert Appleton, Godiva in the Firing Line, Damnation Books, →ISBN, page 31:
   • His skin pimpled with horror, his feet felt like freight, he wanted to retch. But the fires sent a drift of woodsmoke over the bloodscape and the burned meat smell was abruptly overridden. 2014, Philip Wylie, Tomorrow!, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

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