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English
Etymology
From picture + -al.
Pronunciation
Noun
pictural (plural picturals)
- (obsolete) A picture.
Adjective
pictural (comparative more pictural, superlative most pictural)
- (archaic, rare) Pictorial.
1828 March, Walter Scott, “Article XV. On Landscape Gardening. [Review of The Planter’s Guide; or, A Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving Immediate Effect to Wood, by the Removal of Large Trees and Underwood. By Sir Henry Steuart, Bart. Edinburgh, 8vo, 1828. From the Quarterly Review.].”, in The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., volume XXI, Edinburgh: [Ballantyne & Co. for] Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., published 1836, →OCLC, pages 79–80:Horace Walpole, in a short essay, distinguished by his usual accuracy of information, and ornamented by his wit and taste, has traced the history of gardening, in a pictural sense, from the mere art of horticulture to the creation of scenery of a more general character, extending beyond the narrow limits of the proper garden and orchard.
References
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
pictural (feminine picturale, masculine plural picturaux, feminine plural picturales)
- (relational) painting
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French pictural.
Adjective
pictural m or n (feminine singular picturală, masculine plural picturali, feminine and neuter plural picturale)
- pictorial
Declension