blightscape
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]blightscape (plural blightscapes)
- A vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.
- 1993, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, editors, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection, page lxxix:
- The film moves Barker's decaying British urban blightscape to an even grungier Chicago and the Cabrini-Green wasteland.
- 2008, Robert N. Chan, Zahirah Abdulah, Bad Memory, page 57:
- The cracked flagstone path leads to the only house in sight, a large, ramshackle tarpaper-shingled abomination straight out of an Appalachian blightscape.
- 2009, Nelson George, City Kid, unnumbered page:
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blightscape.