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noun a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape)
originFrom water + -scape. Compare Middle English watershipe (“a gathering of waters”), Old English wætersċipe (“a body of water”), Old Saxon watriscapum (“watercourse, watersource”), Middle Dutch waterschap (“watercourse, waterway”) (whence Dutch waterschap).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0