Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - picturesque
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Picturesque
picturesque
adjective Etymology: French & Italian; French pittoresque, from Italian pittoresco, from pittore painter, from Latin pictor, from pingere Date: 1703 1. a. resembling a picture ; suggesting a painted scene b. charming or quaint in appearance 2. evoking mental images ; vivid Synonyms: see graphic • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun
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adj. 1 (of landscape etc.) beautiful or striking, as in a picture. 2 (of language etc.) strikingly graphic; vivid. Derivatives picturesquely adv. picturesqueness n. Etymology: F pittoresque f. It. pittoresco f. pittore painter f. L (as PICTORIAL): assim. to PICTURE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. (the picturesque) колоритность; образность; живописность кадра, изображения или фотоснимка 2. живописный a very picturesque scene —- очень живописная сцена picturesque cottage —- живописный домик, домик как с картинки 3. яркий, образный, колоритный (о языке и т. п.) picturesque account —- колоритный рассказ 4. яркий, оригинальный (о характере, личности и т. п.) a picturesque old man —- занятный старик ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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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 • picturesquely ...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 • picturesquely The historian Yakut described it picturesquely as a ‘mother of castles’. ADV: ADV with v ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ adj 1 a place that is ~ is pretty and interesting, especially in an old-fashioned way (a picturesque New England village in the fall) 2 language that is ~ uses unusual, interesting, or sometimes rude words to describe things (He gave a picturesque account of his trip to New York.) 3 someone who is ~ looks or behaves in an interesting, unusual, or slightly strange way (a picturesque character with a long beard and a large pipe) - ~ly adv - ~ness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1703, on pattern of Fr. pittoresque, from It. pittoresco "pictorial," from pittore "painter." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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