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单词 picturesque
释义 pic·tur·esque
I. \|pikchə|resk, -ksh-\ adjective
Etymology: modification (influenced by picture) (I) of French & Italian; French pittoresque, from Italian pittoresco, from pittore painter (from Latin pictor, from pictus — past participle of pingere to paint — + -or) + -esco -esque — more at paint
1.
 a. : like a picture : resembling or suggesting a painted scene : suitable as a subject for painting
  < picturesque village >
  < picturesque fishing fleet >
  < discovered grouped in picturesque attitudes about the stage — W.S.Gilbert >
 b. : pleasing or charming by reason of quaintness : creating informal patterns of shape, light, and color
  < a pleasantly picturesque style of architecture >
  < venerable family mansion in a highly picturesque state of semidilapidation — T.L.Peacock >
 c. : unusual, primitive, or markedly characteristic in appearance : quaint
  < 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. : characterized by an interest in what is picturesque
 < easy for a picturesque historian to lay side by side the most glaring contrasts — Virginia Woolf >
3. : evoking mental images : vivid
 < picturesque epithets >
 < gave a picturesque account of his adventure >
pic·tur·esque·ly adverb
pic·tur·esque·ness noun -es
II. noun
(-s)
: picturesque quality : picturesqueness; especially : esthetic quality that evokes the atmosphere of another age, environment, or mode of existence — used with the
 < the novelist of contemporary manners needs to be saturated with a sense of the picturesque in modern things — Arnold Bennett >
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