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A skyline doing its best impression of a personality.
means The overall view or visual character of a city, especially its buildings and skyline seen as a whole.
from Coined in the 1850s by stitching city onto the -scape of landscape, which itself grew from the Dutch landschap, painters' jargon for a chunk of scenery worth framing.
Painter's wordBorn as an art term, like seascape and moonscape.
Skyline rivalCityscape is wider; skyline is just the silhouette.
Genre stapleWhole branches of photography and painting bear its name.