Thursday, August 28, 2008

BUCOLIC

rustic and pastoral

characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

a country person

a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life

idyllically rustic

related to shephards and herdsman devoted to raising sheep/cattle

SYN - peasant, provincal, idyl

"It was these bucolic parts of the country that were being left behind when it came to this majority rules democracy."

"Born, bred and living in the city there was a part of him that felt incomplete and yearned for the a more bucolic existence."

"It was an odd life indeed - after having grown up on a farm, Abe had moved to the city, got a high paying job and lived in high-class civilized society, only to know want to return to the farm and what he remembered as a bucolic existence."

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