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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Picturesque \Pic`tur*esque"\, a. [It. pittoresco: cf F.
pittoresque See {Pictorial}.]
Forming, or fitted to form a good or pleasing picture;
representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate
to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which
is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic;
vivid; as a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque
language.
What is picturesque as placed in relation to the
beautiful and the sublime? It is . . . the
characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. --De
Quincey. -- {Pic`tur*esque"ly}, adv -- {Pic`tur*esque"ness},
n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
picturesque
adj 1: suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture;
"a picturesque village"
2: strikingly expressive; "a picturesque description of the
rainforest"
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