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The answer PICTURESQUE has 15 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of picturesque in various dictionaries:
adj - suggesting or suitable for a picture
adj - strikingly expressive
Of, suggesting, or suitable for a picture: picturesque rocky shores.
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| Visually charming or quaint, like a pretty little village |
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| (of a place or building) visually attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way. |
| suggesting or suitable for a picture pretty as a picture |
| strikingly expressive |
| (especially of a place) attractive in appearance, especially in an old-fashioned way: |
| (esp. of a place) attractive in appearance: |
| Of, suggesting, or suitable for a picture: picturesque rocky shores. |
| Striking or interesting in an unusual way irregularly or quaintly attractive: a picturesque French caf. |
| Strikingly expressive or vivid: picturesque language. |
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Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed Englands leisured travellers to examine the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty. Picturesque, along with the aesthetic and cultural strands of Gothic and Celticism, was a part of the emerging Romantic sensibility of the 18th century. * The term picturesque needs to be understood in relationship to two other aesthetic ideals: the beautiful and the sublime. By the last third of the 18th century, Enlightenment and rationalist ideas about aesthetics were being challenged by looking at the experiences of beauty and sublimity as being non-rational. Aesthetic experience was not just a rational decision one did not look at a pleasing curved form and decide it was beautiful; rather it came naturally |