Pastorale
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject.
- 2 a musical composition that evokes rural life wordnet
- 3 An artwork that is suggestive of pastoral themes.
"She was in the country, painting her first pastorale."
- 4 One of the figures of a quadrille.
Example
More examples"She was in the country, painting her first pastorale."
Etymology
From French, from Middle French pastorale; or from Italian pastorale, hence the plural pastorali.