picture postcard

noun

1. postcard ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of picture postcard¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Her shots of these horses are lovely, but come too close to picture-postcard animal aesthetics for my liking.

From The Daily Beast

Later, a good deal later, when the picture postcard was invented, Howell did rather well out of that too.

From Project Gutenberg

Vonnie made good her threat and two weeks after the quarrel Peter received a picture postcard of a giant redwood.

From Project Gutenberg

Then all she had to do was to come back and send a picture postcard to her brother Johann, one of the cleverest spies in Europe.

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George (taking out a picture postcard of the British Museum and kissing it passionately).

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Not so very long afterwards Adela and I had a honeymoon, followed by a picture-postcard from Herbert.

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