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is a land picture. (Anglo-Saxon landscipe, verb scap-an; to shape, to give a form or picture of.)
Father of landscape gardening. A. Lenotre (1613–1700).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.