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nightscape

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[nahyt-skeyp] / ˈnaɪtˌskeɪp /

noun

  1. a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.


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Teams of sellers hawk their filming services to passersby, many of whom have been drawn to the city and its cyberpunk image by motorbiking videos on social media shot against the neon-lit nightscape.

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

The show’s title painting, oddly, verges on the cloying with its prairie dogs popping up in a moonlit nightscape.

From Seattle Times Jun. 6, 2016

With that closing, Washington’s nightscape became more barren.

From Washington Post Dec. 7, 2015

Mr. Soderbergh, serving as director of photography under his habitual pseudonym, Peter Andrews, paints a gritty and luxuriant nightscape.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2015

There is a short street in Walworth Road—East Street—which is as perfect as any nightscape ever conceived by any artist.

From Nights in London by Thomas Burke

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