chocolate-box

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1. UKderogatoryHaving a twee picturesqueness.

   He painted a chocolate-box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted.

   1961, Lawrence Hanson, Elisabeth M Lawrence, Impressionism: golden decade

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   The impressionists showed us something about the world, Cezanne something different, a chocolate-box painting nothing.

   1982, Sterling M McMurrin, The Tanner lectures on human values

   I find it difficult to pick a personal favourite from the two, but Wylam wins on the chocolate-box front, framed by an in-keeping (also Grade 2) footbridge just down the line from it, [...].

   2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56