scenery
noun/ˈsiːnəɹi/ · /ˈsiːnɹi/
Etymology Earlier scenary, from scene + -ary, but now remodelled as scene + -ery.
1
Usually View, natural features, landscape.
2
Usually Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.
- 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.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:
- Derived terms
- borrowed scenery, change of scenery, chew on the scenery, chew the scenery, chew up the scenery, scenery-chewer, scenery-chewing
- Related terms
- scenescape, sceneshifter