bloodscape

English

Etymology

blood +‎ -scape

Noun

bloodscape (plural bloodscapes)

  1. A scene of carnage and devastation.
    • 1977, Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane, Sienna Cameron:
      Over the horizon, the red moon stood like a blot, an imputation of evil, on the outraged background of the stars. It turned the surrounding terrain into a dank bloodscape, full of crimson and evanescent forms like uncomprehended murders .
    • 2009, Robert Appleton, Godiva in the Firing Line, Damnation Books, →ISBN, page 31:
      The last thing Dash saw before something blunt and hard hit the back of his neck was a nightmare bloodscape misted by hot tears.
    • 2014, Philip Wylie, Tomorrow!, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
      His skin pimpled with horror, his feet felt like freight, he wanted to retch. But the fires sent a drift of woodsmoke over the bloodscape and the burned meat smell was abruptly overridden.
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