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retroscape

retroscape noun: a landscape or setting filled with things from the past.

Noun

retroscape (plural retroscapes)

  1. A landscape or setting filled with things from the past.
    • In Ireland, the Titanic is resurfacing once more, in a retroscape dedicated to the greatest new product failure in history.2006, Stephen Brown, Consuming Books: The Marketing And Consumption of Literature, page 202
    • Retro-assimilation has strong appeal in today's climate of social turmoil, transformation and global threats: we are irresistibly drawn to its retroscapes, its nostalgic memories of safer and simpler times.2008, Anna Haebich, Spinning the dream: assimilation in Australia 1950-1970, page 8

Forms of retroscape

pluralretroscapes

Origin of retroscape

From retro- + -scape.

Questions about retroscape

What does retroscape mean?
Retroscape means a landscape or setting filled with things from the past.
What part of speech is retroscape?
Retroscape is a noun.
What is the plural of retroscape?
The plural of retroscape is retroscapes.

Words near retroscape in the dictionary

  1. retrorse
  2. retrorsely
  3. retrorsine
  4. retrorubral
  5. retros
  6. retroscape
  7. retroscapes
  8. retroscapular
  9. retroscopic
  10. retroscripting
  11. retrose

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