adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
picturesque (= pretty )
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Would you prefer to live in a modern house or a picturesque cottage?
pretty/picturesque
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There are many pretty villages nearby.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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TomáÜská is a most picturesque street lined with houses of Renaissance origin with Baroque façades.
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There we are in one of the most picturesque beauty spots on the planet.
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It is undoubtedly one of the most picturesque and idyllically situated working sites in the county, if not the country.
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The most picturesque approach to Kyburg castle is through the Eschenberg forest, past the Bruderhaus deer park.
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This is a small historical town of narrow winding streets set amidst some of the most picturesque scenery.
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Houshold rubbish and builders waste strewn around some of the most picturesque parts of the forest.
■ NOUN
village
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Craigendarroch is the perfect base for discovering the surrounding countryside with its bustling towns, and picturesque villages .
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There is also a very pretty walk here, along the old railway line to another picturesque village , Little Melford.
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Goblin Ha'Hotel Charming inn situated in picturesque village at the foot of the Lammermuirs.
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Once the thriving port of Linlithgow, Blackness is a picturesque village with a heavily fortified castle.
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In those days it was a picturesque village a couple of miles from the pleasant and compact town.
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Inland, picturesque villages nestle in the wooded Brendon Hills.
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It was mid-autumn, and the bulk of the tourists who thronged through the picturesque villages in the summer had gone.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Gordon's picturesque account of the battle
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He rents a small house in the picturesque old quarter of town.
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the picturesque town of Monterey
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We visited the picturesque fishing village of Lochinver.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A picturesque spot with well laid out gardens and leisure centre.
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At the time, Dorset was beginning the transition from picturesque dairy country to affluent summer artist colony.
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Conwy Town is a picturesque and richly historic touring centre.
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It has no regional or picturesque name.
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It is undoubtedly one of the most picturesque and idyllically situated working sites in the county, if not the country.
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Under a pear tree in the far comer of the orchard was a picturesque timber built shed.