Saturday, September 30, 2006
BUCOLIC
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Latin bucolicus, pastoral, from Greek boukolikos, from boukolos, cowherd : bous, cow; see gwou- in Indo-European Roots + -kolos, herdsman; see kwel-1 in Indo-European Roots.]bu·coli·cal·ly adv.
bucolic
adj 1: used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian, pastoral, rustic] 2: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: pastoral] n 1: a country person [syn: peasant, provincial] 2: a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: eclogue, idyll]