0 (especially of a place) attractive in appearance, especially in an old-fashioned way: --
1 (esp. of a place) attractive in appearance: --
The illustrator intended not only to explore the picturesque aspects of the poem, but also to present his work as a painting.
Despite those significant and important achievements, his charming and picturesque personality was more appealing and telling than suggested merely by his biographical data.
It was both celebrated as "picturesque" and vilified as a source of contamination.
The picturesque traveller 'pursued' views whilst botanising walkers 'hunted out' specimens.
So the manufactured landscape has begun to lose its industrial aesthetic and become concerned with questions of the picturesque.
They seek out the picturesque and the unusual and plan their trip to enjoy the sense of freedom away from home and the mundane.
It is this subtlety that distinguishes these urban landscapes from the picturesque, highly controlled experiences of nineteenth-century parks.
I introduced them only because they were more picturesque and easier to handle than gold.
