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[ adjective ] suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture
Examples "a picturesque village" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)The outlook for the amateur , for_instance , is usually dependent_on his fondness for local history or for the picturesque . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)It appears that the dominant tendency of Mann 's early tales , however pictorial or even picturesque the surface , is already toward the symbolic , the emblematic , the expressionistic . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] strikingly expressive
Examples "a picturesque description of the rainforest" Related terms |
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