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Mountainscape vs Cape - What's the difference?

mountainscape | cape |

As nouns the difference between mountainscape and cape

is that mountainscape is a view of mountains, or a depiction of such a view while cape is hard earth layer (while digging).

mountainscape

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A view of mountains, or a depiction of such a view
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 14, author=Nicolai Ouroussoff, title=A Fine View, on the Outside at Least, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The two forms are joined by the imposing public lobby, its glass facade slanting back dramatically from the street to evoke a glistening mountainscape . }}

    cape

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) cap, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geography) A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake; a promontory; a headland.
    • Synonyms
    * chersonese * peninsula * point

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia cape) (etyl) capa, from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips.
  • *
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
    See also
    * cloak

    Verb

    (cap)
  • (nautical) To head or point; to keep a course.
    • The ship capes southwest by south.
  • (obsolete) To gape.
    • (Chaucer)
  • To skin an animal, particularly a deer.

    • Anagrams

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