picture postcard
Noun
Meaning
a postcard with a picture on one side
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picture-postcard
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When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.
Images of the newly built Eiffel Tower in 1889 and 1890 gave impetus to the postcard, leading to the so-called "golden age" of the picture postcard in years following the mid-1890s.
Imagine driving through tree lined country roads, taking a turn and there before you is a glorious Lake surrounded by picture postcard hills.
The earliest known picture postcard was a hand-painted design on card, posted in Fulham in London to the writer Theodore Hook in 1840 bearing a penny black stamp.
This is not your picture postcard of children running around smiling.