Pic'tūr-èsque', a.

(pĭkt'/yūr-ĕsk'), a. [Fr. pittoresque, It. pittoreseco, Sp. pintoresco. See supra.] Fitted to form a good or pleasing picture; represented with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial.

The three crosses are placed prospectively in an uncommonly picturesque manner. Sir J. Reynolds.

What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime? It is ... the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey.