retroscape
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
retroscape (plural retroscapes)
- A landscape or setting filled with things from the past.
- 2006, Stephen Brown, Consuming Books: The Marketing And Consumption of Literature, page 202:
- In Ireland, the Titanic is resurfacing once more, in a retroscape dedicated to the greatest new product failure in history.
- 2008, Anna Haebich, Spinning the dream: assimilation in Australia 1950-1970, page 8:
- Retro-assimilation has strong appeal in today's climate of social turmoil, transformation and global threats: we are irresistibly drawn to its retroscapes, its nostalgic memories of safer and simpler times.