Definitions
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- noun The area between
foreground andbackground ;middle distance .
Etymologies
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center + ground
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Examples
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The palm trees were purple against the flickering sky; the lake in the centerground caught the stars and the moon, and when the surface shuddered in a gust of wind off the Gulf, the water was streaked with quicksilver; I could smell oak trees and moss and night-blooming flowers.
Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987
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