单词 | picturesque |
释义 | pic·tur·esque I. 1. a. < picturesque village > < picturesque fishing fleet > < discovered grouped in picturesque attitudes about the stage — W.S.Gilbert > b. < a pleasantly picturesque style of architecture > < venerable family mansion in a highly picturesque state of semidilapidation — T.L.Peacock > c. < modern touches without sacrificing its picturesque French colonial charm — Mary R. Johnson > < pioneering conditions that are picturesque to look back upon but were rather trying to live through — Marquis James > 2. < easy for a picturesque historian to lay side by side the most glaring contrasts — Virginia Woolf > 3. < picturesque epithets > < gave a picturesque account of his adventure > • pic·tur·esque·ly • pic·tur·esque·ness II. < the novelist of contemporary manners needs to be saturated with a sense of the picturesque in modern things — Arnold Bennett > |
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