landskip
Americannoun
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All the world's bravery that delights our eyes, Is but thy sev'ral liveries, Thou the rich dye on them bestow'st, Thy nimble pencil paints this landskip as thou go'st.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Cibber, Theophilus
The author supposes himself viewing several pieces of historic, landskip, and portrait painting; and from thence takes occasion to represent the figures, prospects, and passions, which the artist has exhibited.
From A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. by Hilles, Frederick Whiley
Landscape, earlier landskip, has the suffix which in English would be -ship.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
This is a caranto-man, with all my heart! must Beauty be his landskip on the seat of justice?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
They crossed the torrent by a stone bridge that seemed to have become a natural feature in the landskip.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
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