Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a picture, the distance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paint.), rare That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into the distance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
offscape . - noun obsolete The
distance ;background .
Etymologies
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From off- + -skip.
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Examples
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"With a divine agrees the statue of truth, represented in a Christian-like manner, or else this same emblem in one of his hands, and his other on his breast, besides tapestries, bas-reliefs, or paintings, and some Christian emblems of the true faith; and representation of the Old and New Testament -- in the offskip a temple."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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