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Definition of Picturesque
Picturesque 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.
