pittoresque
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Adjective
pittoresque (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of pittoresk
Declension
| Declension of pittoresque | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | pittoresque | |||
| inflected | pittoresque | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | pittoresque | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | pittoresque | ||
| n. sing. | pittoresque | |||
| plural | pittoresque | |||
| definite | pittoresque | |||
| partitive | pittoresques | |||
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian pittoresco.
Pronunciation
Adjective
pittoresque (plural pittoresques)
Descendants
- → Dutch: pittoresk, pittoresque
- → Turkish: pitoresk
Noun
pittoresque m or f by sense (plural pittoresques)
- someone or something that is picturesque
Further reading
- “pittoresque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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