picture postcard

picture postcard (plural picture postcards)

1. A postcard bearing a picture.
2. (when used attributively, figuratively) Scenic, like the image on a postcard.

   Synonym: picturesque

   It was a picture-postcard summer day.

   • 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.

• “picture postcard” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “picture postcard” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “picture postcard” (US) / “picture postcard” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “picture postcard”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.