weirdscape

English

Etymology

From weird +‎ -scape.

Noun

weirdscape (plural weirdscapes)

1. A bizarre place or atmosphere.
   • 2007, Don Waters, Desert Gothic, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 141:

     But sixty-plus middle-aged women dangling from ape-hanger handlebars, their modified Hogs parked along the town's half-mile drag, make for an unexpected, discombobulating weirdscape.

   • 2007 May 6, Marion Bull, “Journey to the Edge of the World”, in Daily Mail:

     You need a four-wheel-drive to get to the old Zero Meridian monument through a boulder-strewn, euphorbia-covered weirdscape and tiny craters called hornitos (little ovens), via the Orchilla lighthouse where the first man crossed the island.

   • 2014 April 9, Laurie Penny, “A tale of two cities: how San Francisco's tech boom is widening the gap between rich and poor”, in New Statesman:

     Zawinski was one of the founders of Netscape, “the first web browser that mattered”, and is often touted as an example of a techie who has worked to keep San Francisco’s vaudevillian weirdscape alive and dancing, rather than just getting out with his pile.