PICTURESQUE


Meaning of PICTURESQUE in English

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

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

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