picturesquerien.
/ˌpɪktʃəˈrɛsk(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌpɪk(t)ʃəˈrɛskəri/ The picturesque; picturesqueness.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > picturesqueness > picturesque thing or quality
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1962 Punch 12 Sept. 392/3 Miscegenation and picturesquerie on beaches.
1978 ‘M. Delving’ No Sign of Life i. 5 I hadn't much time for prettiness and picturesquerie.
1990 European 25 May 9/4 That bleak February landscape, once so like a woodcut, was softened to picturesquerie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1962- sheep's herd
- sheep's leather
- sheep's nose
- sheep's parsley
- sheep's pellet
- sheep's russet
- sheep's scabious
- sheep's silver
- sheep's sleight
- sheep's snout
- sheep's sorrel
- sheep's tongue
- sheep's wool
- sheep's-belly
- sheep's-colour
- sheep's-dung
- sheep's-eye
- sheep's-gather
- sheep's-head
- sheep's-head clock
- sheep's-head fish
- sheep's-head gull
- sheep's-head porgy
- sheep's-heads
- sheep's-pelt