picturesquerien.
/ˌpɪktʃəˈrɛsk(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌpɪk(t)ʃəˈrɛskəri/ The picturesque; picturesqueness.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > picturesqueness > picturesque thing or quality
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1962 Punch 12 Sept. 392/3 Miscegenation and picturesquerie on beaches.
1978 ‘M. Delving’ No Sign of Life i. 5 I hadn't much time for prettiness and picturesquerie.
1990 European 25 May 9/4 That bleak February landscape, once so like a woodcut, was softened to picturesquerie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1962- to poke a person one
- to poke borak
- to poke fun
- to poke fun at
- to poke mullock
- to poke mullock at
- to poke one
- to poke one's fun
- to poke one's fun at
- to poke one's head
- to poke one's neck
- to poke one's nose in
- to poke one's nose into
- to poke the bear
- to poke the borak
- to poleward
- to polish a bone
- to polish a turd
- to polish off
- to polish one's marble
- to polish someone's knob
- to polish the knob
- to poll and pill
- to poop a sea
- to pop