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It is not a word in standard modern English. It is sometimes used as a slangabbreviation for landscape, in which case it should probably be spelled " 'scape". Shakespeare uses it as an abbreviation of "escape", and it from this that the words scapegoat and scapegrace appear to be derived.

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