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-scape

suffix forming nouns

indicating a scene or view of something, esp a pictorial representation: seascape.

[abstracted from landscape]

scape¹

(skeɪp)

n.

1. a leafless flower stalk rising from the ground.

2. Archit. the shaft of a column.

[1595–1605; < Latin scāpus stalk < Doric Greek skâpos, akin to Attic skêptron staff, scepter]

scape²

(skeɪp)

n., v.t., v.i. scaped, scap•ing.

escape.

-scape

a combining form extracted from landscape, with the meaning “an extensive view, scenery,” or “a picture or representation” of such a view, as specified by the initial element: cityscape; moonscape.

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The suffix -scape is meant to indicate the fluid and irregular shape of these global cultural flows giving them the appearance of a "landscape," as well as to stress that they are "deeply perspectivai constructs, inflected by the historical, linguistic, and political situatedness of different sorts of actors: nation-states, multinationals and diasporic communities, as well as subnational groupings and movements (...) villages, neighborhoods and families.

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