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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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He’d probably say something like, “Make my day,” except that Gotham seems stuck in a perpetual, rain-streaked nightscape.

From Washington Post Feb. 28, 2022

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

At every moment, her pale skin glows and her dilated pupils flit over the nightscape in serene rapture.

From Slate Apr. 23, 2014

Look around the corner, however, and a 20th century Surrealist painting —Remedios Varo’s magical nightscape, “Portrait of Dr. Ignacio Chavez,” from 1957 — comes into view.

From New York Times Mar. 11, 2011

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 Burke, Thomas

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