picturesque — this is an adjective used to describe scenery that looks like it could be a picture or a painting or to describe a village that is so quaint and charming that it looks like it could be a picture or a painting, too
pintoresco/pintoresca — these are the masculine and feminine Spanish cognates of the same meaning
“Picturesque” comes to English …
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