landskip
English edit
Noun edit
landskip (plural landskips)
- Obsolete form of landscape.
- 1748, David Hume, An enquiry concerning human understanding, in: L. A. Selby-Bigge, M. A., Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. second edition, London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § II:
- All the colours of poetry, however splendid, can never paint natural objects in such a manner as to make the description be taken for a real landskip.
- 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:
- Hogglestock, as has been explained, has little to offer in the way of landskip beauty, and the clergyman's house at Hogglestock was not placed on a green slopy bank of land, retired from the road, […]
- 1748, David Hume, An enquiry concerning human understanding, in: L. A. Selby-Bigge, M. A., Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. second edition, London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § II: