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  • noun Plural form of landskip.

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Examples

  • True it is, this was sufficiently made up in another respect; as we travelled over a charming country, which might justly furnish our painters of the finest imagination with genuine notions of landskips.

    History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

  • "You see, she's a lot o 'darnin' an 'one thing another to do, but she finds time for her landskips and things."

    Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts

  • Virginia, (where they are of three or four sorts, differing in their leaves, fruit and stature) very black of colour, and so admirably streaked, as to represent natural flowers, landskips, and other fancies:

    Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

  • Bicket, “to ‘ave cliffs or landskips and two sort of dolls sittin’ on the sand or in the grass lookin’ as if they didn’t know what to do with each other.”

    The White Monkey 2004

  • The Asian side is covered with fruit-trees, villages, and the most delightful landskips (sic) in nature; on the European, stands Constantinople, situated on seven hills. ”

    Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e Montague, Lady Mary W 1724

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