landskip
Americannoun
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I am only a flower-painter, or occasionally attempt a landskip; and leave the human figure with the subjects of history to abler artists.
From The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin
An air of grottoes, of stone embellishments, arbours, and cunning recesses shed itself over the landskip.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
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 Robert Dodsley
Landscape, earlier landskip, has the suffix which in English would be -ship.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
All the colours of poetry, however splendid, can never paint natural objects in such a manner as to make the description be taken for a real landskip.
From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by L. A. Selby-Bigge
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