picture postcard

plural picture postcards

1. A postcard bearing a picture.

1. attributivefigurativelyScenic, like the image on a postcard.

   It was a picture-postcard summer day.

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   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.

   1991 May 4, Walta Borawksi, “A Sort of Homecoming”, in Gay Community News, page 9

   Aberdour station opened in 1890, welcoming day-trippers and travellers to the picture-postcard seaside village.

   2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 56

   Synonyms: picturesque