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a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) a letter from a pastor to the congregation of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter" a musical composition that evokes rural life suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene; "his idyllic life in Tahiti"; "the pastoral legends of America''s Golden Age" pleasant relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" rural |
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