0 a postcard with a picture, usually a photograph of a place, on one side
1 used to describe a place that is extremely attractive:
disapproving I hate picture-postcard prettiness.
We do not want to see the city as a picture postcard.
Their knowledge is probably that which might be obtained from a picture postcard.
That picture postcard image of the county is inaccurate.
The rosy, picture postcard idea of holiday resorts is in many cases, sadly, no longer the reality.
When does a picture postcard cease to be a greetings card, and when does a greetings card become a picture postcard?
It is not a picture postcard or a museum, but a working environment for many thousands of people.
There are picture postcard images of thatched cottages with white cob walls.
I should publish any picture postcard which we thought we could sell.