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staffages

staffages is the plural of staffage.

Meaning of staffage

Noun

staffage (usually uncountable, plural staffages)

  1. (usually, painting) The people and animals represented in a landscape painting.
    • Some tourists aggravate their position by hiring a guide. Every city of any historic importance breeds a class of mortals that are born guides; they have come to belong to the "staffage" of picturesque surroundings; and in this respect Prague is happily yet unspoilt.1923, Bernard Granville Baker, From a Terrace in Prague

Questions about staffages

What is staffages the plural of?
Staffages is the plural of staffage.

Words near staffages in the dictionary

  1. staff-slings
  2. Staffa
  3. staffable
  4. staffaculty
  5. staffage
  6. staffages
  7. staffe
  8. staffed
  9. staffed up
  10. staffelite
  11. staffellid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: staffages (page history and authors); staffage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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