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picturesque |
2 definitions found 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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