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nightscape

American  
[nahyt-skeyp] / ˈnaɪtˌskeɪp /

noun

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


Example Sentences

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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

Christianity has boomed in South Korea over the last century, and churches’ neon-lit crosses dot the nightscape of Seoul, the capital.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2018

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

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