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Webster 1913 Edition
Picturesque
Picˊtur-esque′
,Adj.
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.
– Picˊtur-esque′ly
, adv.
Picˊtur-esque′ness
, Noun.