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English Dictionary: picturesque by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"
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.
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