Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A scene on a river, or a picture representing such a scene.

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  • noun A landscape that features a river

Etymologies

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From river + landscape

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Examples

  • Vincent Van Gogh took up painting in that year, and Monet painted Sunset on the Seine in Winter, and the sculptor Rodin turned out The Thinker, and Renoir began his riverscape masterpiece, Luncheon of the Boating Party.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Vincent Van Gogh took up painting in that year, and Monet painted Sunset on the Seine in Winter, and the sculptor Rodin turned out The Thinker, and Renoir began his riverscape masterpiece, Luncheon of the Boating Party.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • As captured on video, the riverscape seemed to consist chiefly of slowwater sections winding through gentle bends and interrupted occasionally by riffles.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • She could see the government barge still tied to its dock, its red enamel and gilt trim as brilliant as a flower in the gray-green riverscape.

    Hadrian's Wall.html Dietrich, William 2004

  • As captured on video, the riverscape seemed to consist chiefly of slowwater sections winding through gentle bends and interrupted occasionally by riffles.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • The steam around them thinned just long enough for Morgan to catch a glimpse of a boiling riverscape, at what seemed entirely the wrong angle.

    The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

  • He passed her a black and white riverscape of towering cliffs on either hand and a cascade of water that seemed to fall from the heavens to dwarf the tiny figures of half-naked men and boats in the foreground.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • She smoked her cigarette, looking hard at the riverscape.

    The Dirty Duck Grimes, Martha 1984

  • She smoked her cigarette, looking hard at the riverscape.

    the dirty duck Grimes, Martha 1984

  • A barrier dam across the entire estuary at one or another point in the freshwater section could prevent such penetration, but would be hugely expensive and undoubtedly more obtrusive on a much-used part of the riverscape than most upstream reservoirs could possibly be.

    The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior United States. Dept. of the Interior.

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