man-scape

man-scape (plural man-scapes)

1. Alternative form of manscape
   • 1940, Carnegie Magazine - Volumes 14-15, page 267:

     We might call it the fashion of man-scapes. A rough count discloses an overwhelming preponderance of man-scapes — pictures in which man-made forms, such as houses, factories, bridges, and so forth, furnished the dominant interest; as against landscapes in which nature, much less modified by man, is the subject matter.

   • 1984, Elizabeth Bauer Kassler, Modern gardens and the landscape, page 45:

     Meanwhile we take pleasure in the sculpture of the natural landscape and find that distance sometimes lends enchantment even to intrinsically dreary man-scapes.

   • 2005, Lynne Warren, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, →ISBN:

     Shibata's photographs bear witness to this shift in contemporary Japanese terrain by exploring the landscape as a "man-scape."

man-scape (third-person singular simple present man-scapes, present participle man-scaping, simple past and past participle man-scaped)

1. Alternative form of manscape
   • 2009, Craig Bridger, Surviving Groomzilla, →ISBN:

     A Libra Groomzilla always man-scapes his business—but prefers waxing to Nair (he dislikes the chemical smell it leaves on his man berries).

   • 2012, Karen Holder, Be "The Other Woman" in Your Man's Life, →ISBN, page 107:

     If your man is a hairy man (and perhaps sometimes a bit much in certain areas), this would be a good time to man-scape him.

   • 2012, Jay Little -, Come Back To Me, →ISBN, page 157:

     Most other medical tapes stick very well to skin. Too well. Well enough to completely man-scape my chest and arms.

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