picture postcard

English

Noun

picture postcard (plural picture postcards)

1. A postcard bearing a picture.
2. (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.