noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject.
2. 2
   a musical composition that evokes rural life wordnet
3. 3
   An artwork that is suggestive of pastoral themes.

   "She was in the country, painting her first pastorale."

4. 4
   One of the figures of a quadrille.

Synonyms

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idylidyllpastoral

Example

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"She was in the country, painting her first pastorale."

Etymology

From French, from Middle French pastorale; or from Italian pastorale, hence the plural pastorali.

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