"picturesque" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Audio: En-us-picturesque.ogg [US] Forms: picturesque [positive], [comparative], [superlative]
Etymology: picture + -esque Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|picture|esque}} picture + -esque Head templates: {{adjective}} [POS TABLE]
  1. Picturesque is an adjective which means "as pretty as a picture".
    Sense id: simple-picturesque-en-adj-psGf487K
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
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