scenery
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Earlier scenary, from scene + -ary, but now remodelled as scene + -ery.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]scenery (countable and uncountable, plural sceneries)
- View, natural features, landscape.
- Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.
- 1695, John Dryden, “Preface of the Translator, with a Parallel, of Poetry and Painting”, in C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC, page xliv:
- To make a Sketch, or a more perfect Model of a Picture, is in the Language of Poets, to draw up the Scenary of a Play, and the reaſon is the ſame for both; to guide the Undertaking, and to preſerve the Remembrance of ſuch things, whoſe Natures are difficult to retain.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]view, natural features, landscape
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stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene
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