inscape

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, in + -scape.

Noun

inscape (plural inscapes)

  1. A landscape of an indoor setting.
    • 1957 May 4, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, “Zooey”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32 (start of article):
      There was a Steinway grand piano [...] a cherrywood writing table, and an assortment of floor lamps, table lamps, and "bridge" lamps that sprang up all over the congested inscape like sumac.
  2. The distinctive design that constitutes individual identity; a concept derived by Gerard Manley Hopkins from the ideas of the medieval philosopher Duns Scotus.

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