picture postcard

Traveler's scenic greeting

A picture postcard is a postcard featuring a photograph or illustration, typically of a scenic location or tourist attraction.

As an adjective, picture-postcard describes something ideally pretty or picturesque: a picture-postcard village in the Cotswolds, picture-postcard weather.

The phrase often implies a scene almost too perfect to be real.

tourism

travel

Movement between locations

souvenir · holiday · tourist · visitor · landmark · attraction · resort · excursion · gift shop · rack

keepsake

souvenir

Token from a trip

album · collectible · memory · nostalgia · reminiscence · recollection · token · treasure · scrapbook · correspondence

scenic

landscape

Visible features of terrain

idyllic · quaint · charming · serene · pristine · sunset · coastline · waterfall · mountainous · pastoral

Categories
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Opposites
format/type of correspondence

picture postcardletter

Written symbol or message

sealed letter · private correspondence · telegram · email · parcel

aesthetic quality of scenery

picture postcardeyesore

Offensively unattractive thing

blight · urban decay · slum · ugliness · wasteland

authenticity/representation

picture postcardgritty realism

Unvarnished depiction of hardship

candid shot · raw footage

Family

picture, postcard, pictures, pictured, picturing, pictorial, picturesque, postcards, post

Familiarity
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G