picturesquerie
(pɪktjʊəˈrɛskərɪ, -tʃə-)
[f. picturesque a., after grotesquerie.]
The picturesque; picturesqueness.
| 1962 Punch 12 Sept. 392/3 Miscegenation and picturesquerie on beaches. 1963 Punch 20 Mar. 396/2 An endless stream of..picturesquerie, from Maundy Money to the Royal Enclosure. 1968 Listener 12 Sept. 322/1 Soon, we were back with French TV's old faults of inconsequential folklore and half-conscious chauvinism. Shock and protest gave place to a routine rag-bag of patriotic picturesquerie. 1978 ‘M. Delving’ No Sign of Life i. 5, I hadn't much time for prettiness and picturesquerie. |