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What is the origin of landscape?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Probably from a Dutch 1500/1600's word 'Landschap' originally introduced as a painters term. An Old English word 'landscipe' meaning land with distinguishing characteristics. Later as a 19th Century English word meaning to lay out lawns and gardens and plant trees

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