ˈskyscape
[f. sky n.1, after landscape, seascape.]
A view of the sky; also in painting, etc., a representation of part of the sky.
| 1817 Southey Let. in Life (1850) IV. 283 It was the unbroken horizon which impressed me,..and the skyscapes which it afforded. 1861 C. J. Andersson Okavango x. 137 The beautiful and striking skyscapes and atmospheric coruscations attendant on these storms. 1878 Grosart More's Poems Introd. p. xli, The great ancient Painters, whose backgrounds of portraits..rather than land-scape, or sea-scape, or sky-scape proper, assure us [etc.]. |