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picturesque

pic·tur·esque [ pìkchə résk ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
1. visually attractive: visually very appealing or impressive, often by virtue of quaintness or unusualness or through seeming fit for a painting or photograph

2. vivid: charmingly or strikingly unusual and often very expressive
a picturesque expression



noun 
Definition:
 
visually attractive or distinctive things: things that are visually very pleasing or distinctive, considered collectively

[Early 18th century. Anglicization (after picture) of French pittoresque< Italian pittoresco< pittore "painter" < Latin pictor (see pictorial)]

pic·tur·esque·ly adverb
pic·tur·esque·ness noun
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