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
Karst is a name for a certain type of landscape where the bedrock is riddled with cracks, fissures and caves formed by water dissolving/eroding the bedrock. "Of karstic origin" would refer to something (probably geological) that has been shaped under similar circumstances like a karstic landscape has been formed.
It's of Dutch origin; from the Middle Dutch word landscap.
Around 1600 A.D, the Dutch coined the word landschap,meaning a painting, representing natural scenery. And the rest... is history.
Landscape - Landscape album - was created in 1979.
A portrait is the likeness of a person. A landscape is a landscape. You cannot have a landscape portrait.
The surname Cozens is of early medieval English and French origin. The name means son or relation of Cousin. In the Middle Ages, cousin had the general meaning "relative, kinsman". Alexander Cozens was a landscape painter in water-colours, who was born in Russia, and was reputed to be the son of Peter the Great.
Jay Appleton has written: 'The funny thing about landscape' -- subject(s): Landscape protection 'The experience of landscape' -- subject(s): Landscape, Landscape in art 'The Aesthetics of Landscape'
The name Haiti comes from the indigenous Taíno people's language and means "land of high mountains." It reflects the country's rugged terrain and mountainous landscape.
Landscape is a concatenation of the historic Dutch / German word Land / Länder, and the English bastardisation of the Dutch word Scape, meaning ship. Some believe it to be akin to 'Land Ahoy' of more modern times.
The word landscape is used as an adjunct (adjective) in most cases. These include landscape plants and landscape painters.
Origin based boundaries: Also called Genetic Political Boundaries because it has to do with the evolution of boundaries.Pioneered by American political geographer Richard Harshorne (1899-1992)Antecedent: Certain boundaries were delimited before the present-day human landscape was developed. Example: Border between Malaysia and Indonesia on the island of Borneo.Subsequent: Boundary evolved as the cultural landscape of an area took shape. Example: The border between China and Vietnam was the result of a long term process of adjustment and modification.Superimposed: Boundary that is forcibly drawn across a unified cultural landscape. Example: Island of New Guinea that separates Indonesia's West Papua from the country of Papua New Guinea.Relic: A border that has ceased to function but whose imprints are still evident on the cultural landscape. Example: The border between former North and South Vietnam.
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