[‘ A view, depiction, or evocation of love; (also) a context or setting for love.']
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈlʌvskeɪp/, U.S. /ˈləvˌskeɪp/
Etymology: < love n.1 + -scape comb. form. In Hopkins’s use (see quot. 1876) apparently modelled on inscape n., and thus perhaps showing a different etymology (see discussion at that entry).
A view, depiction, or evocation of love; (also) a context or setting for love.
1876 G. M. Hopkins /Wreck of Deutschland/ xxiii, in /Poems/ (1967) 59 With the gnarls of the nails in thee, niche of the lance, his Lovescape crucified.
1899 /Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican/ 15 Apr. 5/2 A little love-scape painted by the master hand of Charles Dickens.
1969 /Punch/ 19 Feb. 286/1 It is finely elegiac and the townscapes and lovescapes are vivid.
1989 /Times/ (Nexis) 6 May, It is a progress which entails a range of passions from infatuation to despair, bereavement to acceptance. In that respect it could be a view of any other lovescape; homosexuality here is the norm.
2000 /Herald (Glasgow)/ (Nexis) 16 Mar. 16 Every sentient adult groover will fall in love with Yo La Tengo’s personal lovescapes, its evocations of hot romances turned cold.
2004 /Chicago Sun-Times/ (Nexis) 7 Nov. 1 In today’s murky romantic lovescape, Zellweger admits that defining a romantic relationship isn’t easy.