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pittoresque Englisch:

1. quaintness


The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.

Englisch Wort "pittoresque"(quaintness) tritt in Sätzen auf:

Fiches du livre - "Memories" (Max Muller)
Fiches du livre - "Queen Lucia" (E. F. Benson)
Fiches du livre - "Heart Songs" (Jean Blewett)
Fiches du livre - "Italian Hours" (Henry James)
Fiches du livre - "Probable Sons" (Amy LeFeuvre)

2. picturesque


Naples is a picturesque city.
a picturesque landscape
Garda is one of the lake’s most picturesque resorts.
the picturesque narrow streets of the old city
A picturesque place is attractive -especially because it is old and interesting.
picturesque view
What a picturesque village!
The English moors can be picturesque when the heather is in bloom.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
the picturesque covered bridges of New England
the picturesque narrow streets of the old city; This part of the town is especially picturesque.
They stood against the picturesque scenery.

Englisch Wort "pittoresque"(picturesque) tritt in Sätzen auf:

Fiches du livre - "Glove Lore" (Unknown)
Fiches du livre - "Greuze" (Alys Eyre Macklin)
Fiches du livre - "Gibraltar" (Henry M. Field)
Fiches du livre - "Four Meetings" (Henry James)
Fiches du livre - "Down South" (Lady Duffus Hardy)

3. quaint


It's a quaint old village.
a quaint street
A quaint place is attractive or interesting with a slightly strange and old-fashioned quality.
Mary was delighted by the quaint bonnets she saw in Romania.
During out tour of Europe we passed through quaint villages.
a quaint little village
I live in a quaint little village.
quaint narrow streets
a quaint old cottage
a quaint old cottage; "What a quaint idea!" she said, laughing at him; In Spain, we visited a cobblestone plaza with quaint little cafés around its perimeter.
They all made their homes in a quaint community along a riverbank.
His accent sounds a little quaint.

Englisch Wort "pittoresque"(quaint) tritt in Sätzen auf:

Fiches du livre - "Under Blue Skies" (S. J. Brigham)
Fiches du livre - "Reminiscences of Epping Forest"...
Fiches du livre - "Little People: An Alphabet" (T....
Fiches du livre - "Thrills of a Bell Boy" (Samuel ...
Fiches du livre - "The Wreck of the Hesperus" (Hen...