Definition of "picturesque"

A two minutes' walk brought Warwick—the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him—to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.

1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, “A Stranger from South Carolina”, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], page 3

A dear old lady said she thought the ancient castle at Conway most picturesque, but that it was a pity they put it so close to the railway!

1946 March and April, R. A. H. Weight, “Euston to the North-West”, in Railway Magazine, page 71