transcription, транскрипция: [ pɪktʃəresk ]
1.
A picturesque place is attractive and interesting, and has no ugly modern buildings.
Alte, in the hills northwest of Loule, is the Algarve’s most picturesque village.
ADJ
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You can refer to picturesque things as the picturesque .
...lovers of the picturesque.
N-SING : the N
• pic‧tur‧esque‧ly
...the shanty-towns perched picturesquely on the hillsides.
ADV
2.
Picturesque words and expressions are unusual or poetic.
Every inn had a picturesque name–the Black Locust Inn, the Blueberry Inn.
ADJ
• pic‧tur‧esque‧ly
The historian Yakut described it picturesquely as a ‘mother of castles’.
ADV : ADV with v