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| pic·tur·esque [ pìkchə résk ] |
adjective |
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1. visually attractive: visually very appealing or impressive, often by virtue of quaintness or unusualness or through seeming fit for a painting or photograph
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2. vivid: charmingly or strikingly unusual and often very expressive
  a picturesque expression
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noun |
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visually attractive or distinctive things: things that are visually very pleasing or distinctive, considered collectively
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| [Early 18th century. Anglicization (after picture) of French pittoresque< Italian pittoresco< pittore "painter" < Latin pictor (see pictorial)] |
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| pic·tur·esque·ly adverb |
| pic·tur·esque·ness noun |
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