Picturesque
Pronunciation : Pic`tur*esque"
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [It. pittoresco: cf. F. pittoresque. See Pictorial.]
Definition : Defn: Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing 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; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. What is picturesque as placed in relation to the beautiful and the sublime It is . . . the characteristic pushed into a sensible excess. De Quincey. -- Pic`tur*esque"ly, adv. -- Pic`tur*esque"ness, n.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913