Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The background of a landscape; in landscape-gardening, that part of the landscape which lies beyond the property that is to be improved: an old term now coming again into use. The landscape-garden proper comprises the domain over which the artist has immediate jurisdiction and control; the offscape is the outlying scenery, with which his own work should, articulate.
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- noun The
background of alandscape . - noun That part of the landscape which lies beyond the property that is to be improved.
Etymologies
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From off- + -scape.
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