Meanings of picturesque costumes in English

From all sides they appeared, in their picturesque costumes of homespun or fur.

Parties of soldiers and sailors, natives with carts, and women in picturesque costumes passed along.

Their picturesque costumes and Oriental faces add still more to the foreign look of the place.

The soldiers in their picturesque costumes lounged about.

Everybody said they wore the most picturesque costumes when they were dressed according to my taste.

At the door stand tall guards, as rigid as statues, dressed in rich and picturesque costumes, and bearing halberds.

To that beautiful European city, with its gondolas and picturesque costumes, belongs the honor of having originated high-class comedy.

Even some pagan Indians, dressed up in their wild picturesque costumes, came to see us, and were very friendly.

The fête had assembled in one view all the picturesque costumes of the Pays d'Auge, and the Coté de Caux.

Next day was the monthly fair at Brest, which brought in many of the country people in their picturesque costumes.

Still, much of the freshness and simplicity of the peasants is passing away with the discarding of their picturesque costumes.

Peasants, in the most picturesque costumes, tended their flocks, or attended to various industrial arts as the flotilla drifted by.

The queer, dark little people of the place still wore about their daily tasks their picturesque costumes, and spoke little French.

Here were the " picturesque costumes!"

Chattering children in brilliant colors, voluble women and talkative men in quieter but no less picturesque costumes, stream on in kaleidoscopic continuity.

I presume it would have been the customary thing to scream and faint, and have all of you running about in picturesque costumes.