PICTURESK', adjective [Latin pictura, or pictor. In English, this would be picturish.] Expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; striking the mind with great power or pleasure in representing objects of vision, and in painting to the imagination any circumstance or event as clearly as if delineated in a picture.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.