a. [f. loco- (in LOCOMOTION) erroneously taken as a combining form of L. locus place.] Descriptive of local scenery, etc.
1815. Wordsw., Poems, Pref. The Epitaph, the Inscription, the Sonnet, and all loco-descriptive poetry, belong to this class [the Idyllium].
1833. J. M. (title), The Invitation; a Locodescriptive Epistle, containing Sketches of Scenery in Wilts and Dorset.
1841. Disraeli, Amen. Lit. (1859), II. 219. These are loco-descriptive poems. Such were Denham’s ‘Coopers Hill,’ and its numerous … imitations.
