waterscape

noun, verb — 2 senses

waterscape

noun

Etymology From water + -scape. Compare Middle English watershipe (“a gathering of waters”), Old English wætersċipe (“a body of water”), Old Saxon watriscapum (“watercourse, watersource”), Middle Dutch waterschap (“watercourse, waterway”) (whence Dutch waterschap).

1

An aquatic landscape; a view or site prominently involving water.

  • As early as 1898, Monet had thought of combining a series of such waterscapes into one wall-filling frieze […]2002, Lorenz Eitner, 19th century European painting: David to Cézanne:

waterscape

verb

Etymology From water + -scape. Compare Middle English watershipe (“a gathering of waters”), Old English wætersċipe (“a body of water”), Old Saxon watriscapum (“watercourse, watersource”), Middle Dutch waterschap (“watercourse, waterway”) (whence Dutch waterschap).

1

To create an aquatic landscape.

Related terms
aquascape

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