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Scenery
//ˈsiːnəɹi// noun
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Noun
- 1 View, natural features, landscape. uncountable, usually
- 2 the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale wordnet
- 3 Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene. uncountable, usually
"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."
- 4 the appearance of a place wordnet
Etymology
Earlier scenary, from scene + -ary, but now remodelled as scene + -ery.
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