manscape
manscape noun: a view of a group of people.
Noun
manscape (plural manscapes)
- A view of a group of people.
- I soon turned to contemplate the more animated manscape at my feet. Seeing a crowd of beggars standing together in dejected attitudes, I cast a handful of cash into the air, in such wise that the coins would fall plump among them, and then dropped behind the parapet of the pagoda.1859, Bayard Taylor, A Visit to India, China and Japan in the Year 1853
- The crowd melts, but melts only to flow again next morning into the same gigantic mould of passion. The men are different, but the manscape is the same.1909, James Douglas, Adventures in London, page 330
- A landscape that has been shaped by the human race.
- At last the manscape gags itself, and a queer, worn, torn, cracked, corncrake voice begins to vibrate in the vast bowl.1905, T. P.'s Weekly - Volume 5, page 364
- And the manscape is our realm, our spatial destiny where we must act and respond, where for our lifetime we must be who we will be.1974, David S. Freeman, Russell C. Lewis, Thomas H. Soper, Our Places and Ourselves, page vii
- An image, normally artistic, of the male form.
- Pierrot is lying in an open loll on bedface, twitching me with bigtoe ... immense beckoner as my captive eye swallows it whole and am unawares into his manscape still at ten feet distance yet touched in a way that nobody has even touched me in my own community d'Angluche.1998, Scott Symons, Christopher Elson, Dear Reader: Selected Scott Symons, page 103
- no contemplative staring at the marble-statue manscape I'd downloaded from one of the porno websites I'd found.2002, Richard Labonte, Best Gay Erotica 2002
Verb
manscape (third-person singular simple present manscapes, present participle manscaping, simple past and past participle manscaped)
- To impose a shape on the landscape to suit humans.
- On the valley floor, wide enough to admit the more pleasing features of manscaping, the Little River meanders.1958, New Zealand Railway & Locomotive Society, The New Zealand Railway Observer
- To trim or shave a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.
- Is it that hard to manscape? You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?2007, Jen Lancaster, Bright Lights, Big Ass
- College News presents a working guide of the dos and don’ts of manscaping, taken from suggestions of college students themselves: Dos: […] / – Facial shaving/beard trimming / – […] – Controlling pubic hair / […] Embrace leg hair / Donts: – Excessive chest hair / – Long nose hairs / – Ear hair / –...2009 September 30, Sara DiRienzo, “The Art of Manscaping”, in College News
Examples of manscape in a sentence
- In 114 pages, he deals with slavery and its effect on the manscape of what he describes as "the most English of the West Indian islands, but at the same time the nearest as the slaves fly, to Africa."1977, West Africa, page 1869:
- Nearly everywhere is a Manscape now, and we need not mourn the fact.1995, Richard North, Life on a Modern Planet: A Manifesto for Progress, page 207:
- As cities grow they try to claim landscapes for themselves, changing them gradually into "manscapes".1996, Herbert Girardet, The Gaia Atlas of Cities: New Directions for Sustainable Urban Living, →ISBN:
- For example, he compares the monumental conquest of Mount Rushmore by Europeans, in which landscape became manscape, with the indigenous Lakota people's desire to honor the Great Spirit, Wakonda […]2001, Denis Edwards, Earth Revealing--earth Healing:
Forms of manscape
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | manscapes |
| alternative form | man-scape |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | manscapes |
| present participle | manscaping |
| past participle | manscaped |
| past | manscaped |
Origin of manscape
From man + -scape.
Words formed from manscape
Questions about manscape
- What does manscape mean?
- Manscape means a view of a group of people.
- How do you use manscape in a sentence?
- In 114 pages, he deals with slavery and its effect on the manscape of what he describes as "the most English of the West Indian islands, but at the same time the nearest as the slaves fly, to Africa."
- What part of speech is manscape?
- Manscape can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of manscape?
- The plural of manscape is manscapes.
Words near manscape in the dictionary
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