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Landscape (A)

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.

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Land of Cakes
Land of Myrrh
Land of Nod (The)
Land of Promise
Land of Shadows (Gone to the)
Land of Stars and Stripes (The)
Land othe Leal (The)
Landau
Landeyda
Landière (French, 3 syl.)
Landscape (A)
Lane
Lane
Lane (The)
Lane
Lanfusa’s Son
Lang Syne (Scotch, long since)
Langbourn Ward (London)
Langstaff (Launcelot)
Language
Langue dOc