pictorial
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They later became popular with holidaymakers after designs changed and pictorial postcards were introduced.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
His book also aligned the “Allegory” with “Jesuit pictorial theory” and argued that “Woman With a Pearl Necklace” expresses “Catholic or Jesuit pictorial didactics.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The system then provides pictorial instructions to the humans on what to pick, where to place it and which truck to load.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
In one of the earliest examples of his "pictorial" photography, Fading Away, Robinson combined five separate negatives to produce a scene showing a dying girl surrounded by her family.
From BBC ● May 10, 2025
Whereas the buildings of Sumer and Assyria were covered with brilliant mosaics and splendid pictorial murals, the Inka style was severe, abstract, stripped down to geometric forms—startlingly contemporary, in fact.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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