picture postcard

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English

Noun

picture postcard (plural picture postcards)

A postcard bearing a picture.
(attributive, figurative) Scenic, like the image on a postcard.
Synonym: picturesque

It was a picture-postcard summer day.
- 1991 May 4, Walta Borawksi, “A Sort of Homecoming”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
  A place that's mostly sunny, but that isn't very picture postcard when your doctor has warned you never to go out with less than SP-30 sunblock.
- 2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 56:
  Aberdour station opened in 1890, welcoming day-trippers and travellers to the picture-postcard seaside village.

Further reading

“picture postcard” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
“picture postcard”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
“picture postcard” (US) / “picture postcard” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
“picture postcard”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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