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picture-postcardish en · ADJ

Etymology

From picture postcard + -ish.

Meanings

1. (figuratively) Picturesque and charming.
   • The hedgerows were coated with icing sugar and the walk was rather picture-postcardish. 2015, Maggie Robinson, All Through the Night, A Holiday Story:
   • Gravel crunches under Betty's wheels. There's something a little picture-postcardish about the way the headlights shine on the front of the old farmhouse. 2016, Kristin Elizabeth Clark, Jess, Chunk, and the Road Trip to Infinity:
   • It's the first time I've ever attempted a mural and it's gone a bit picture-postcardish on me. 1955, Dymphna Cusack, The Sun in Exile, A Novel, page 244:
   • Using more conventional means, and a limited charcoal and pastel palette, Grubola worries that the pretty scenes might be "too picture postcardish." Actually, a work of art can't have color that is too beautiful or lush. November 1985, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 19, number 2, page 180:

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