picture postcard
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- noun
- /ˈpɪk.tʃər ˈpoʊst.kɑrd/
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postal ilustrada
- He sent me a beautiful picture postcard of the Eiffel Tower during his trip to Paris.
- send me a picture postcard
- picture postcard view
- perfect for a picture postcard
Examples
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The picture postcard shows a stunning sunset over the beach, capturing the view perfectly.
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She said, "Today the courier brought a picture postcard addressed to Anna Fink."
Fiction book (1999) -
Hey, send us some of those picture postcards, will you, George?
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I got a picture postcard of it.
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Send me a picture postcard.
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But a few months later, I got this picture postcard of the Grand Canyon.
Fiction book (1992) -
He saw it on a picture postcard from Scotland.
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Two days later, I received what was to be my final picture postcard from Gisselle.
Fiction book (1995) -
The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words.
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Mrs. Kovaks had quite a collection of picture postcards, too, that she pasted in a book so you couldn't read the writing.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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A card sent by mail without an envelope, often with a picture on one side
How Picturesque
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a postcard with a photograph or attractive image' is directly and compositionally derived from 'picture' + 'postcard' following standard English noun-noun compounding. The extended figurative use (e.g. 'picture-postcard village' = very picturesque) likewise follows transparently from the literal image sense, and similar compounds exist in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Picture postcard comes from the small cards travellers sent that had a picture of a place on one side and space to write on the back as a postcard. Because those cards show a perfect view, people call any very pretty scene 'picture postcard', meaning it looks like the ideal image on the card.