sky|scape

sky|scape
sky|scape «SKY SKAYP», noun.
1. a view of the sky: »

It was the unbroken horizon which impressed me … and the skyscapes which it afforded (Robert Southey).

2. a picture or representation of part of the sky: »

The landscape and skyscape in the background are an oil painting stretched on canvas over a built-in frame (New Yorker).

[sky + -scape]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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