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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
picture postcard
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For Katherine the landscape bore none of the familiarity of a picture postcard.
▪ It's a picture postcard brought to life.
▪ It was too perfect; a picture postcard blown up to the scale of real life.
▪ She had not even sent me a picture postcard.
WordNet
picture postcard

n. a postcard with a picture on one side

Usage examples of "picture postcard".

On his razor-scarred, wax-scabbed desk before him lay a picture postcard.

He tore open the envelope, took out a picture postcard, and scanned the message.

I had no need to sleuth out these details, they were written black on white -- though without mention of the police cellar -- on a picture postcard, the picture side of which disclosed the Church of St.

No guidebook, no travelogue, no picture postcard, ever depicted this facet of the Islands.

He was studying a picture postcard which boasted a rooftop view of Brentford, but upon Omallys approach he laid this aside and viewed the Irishman with distaste.

After a high-profile black-tie affair in the ballroom of a Washington hotel, the Soviet ambassador had discovered a picture postcard in his coat pocket as his limousine returned him to the embassy.

A quickly scrawled line on the back of a picture postcard, and on one of my rare, unscheduled visits, a quick jump in a woodland glen.

Sure, you can whip up all sorts of steam and whipped cream for dummies by verbally throwing body parts together, but it's so far from the real thing that it's like saying a picture postcard looks like the place itself.

She was a stone overweight, a stark contrast to the picture postcard Freeman from Atlanta, so admired by Chris Wardlaw.