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blightscape

noun

Etymology

From blight + -scape.

  1. inherited from *bʰleyǵ-✻ — “to shine”
  2. inherited from *blaikaz✻ — “pale; white”
  3. inherited from *blaik✻
  4. inherited from blǣcþa — “leprosy”
  5. inherited from *bleighte✻
  6. suffixed as blightscape — “blight + scape”

Definitions

  1. A vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.

    • The film moves Barker's decaying British urban blightscape to an even grungier Chicago and the Cabrini-Green wasteland.
    • The cracked flagstone path leads to the only house in sight, a large, ramshackle tarpaper-shingled abomination straight out of an Appalachian blightscape.
    • We'd emerge from the subterranean station into Forty-second Street's urban blightscape: the tawdry glow of crumbling old theaters; noisy-clanging-beeping pinball arcades; greasy luncheonettes; and cheap-looking hookers.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for blightscape. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA