Category:Picturesque

Pic`tur*esque", a. Etym: [it. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See Pictorial.]

Defn: 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.