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scenery definition
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This page has two definitions of scenery in English. Scenery is a noun. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
English
Alternative forms
- scenary (obsolete)
Pronunciation
Noun
scenery (countable and uncountable, plural sceneries)
- View, natural features, landscape.
- Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.
- 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 261121781, page xliv:
- 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.
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Translations
view, natural features, landscape
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stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene
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