scenery

Definition

View, natural features, landscape.

Etymology

Earlier scenary, from scene + -ary, but now remodelled as scene + -ery.

Example Sentences

• "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."