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Definition of Bucolic

Bucolic
Bucolic Bu*col"ic, n. [L. Bucolic[^o]n po["e]ma.] A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. --Dryden.
Bucolic
Bucolic Bu*col"ic, a. [L. bucolicus, Gr. ?, fr. ? cowherd, herdsman; ? ox + (perh.) ? race horse; cf. Skr. kal to drive: cf. F. bucolique. See Cow the animal.] Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.

Meaning of Bucolic from wikipedia

- genre is usually referred to as a pastorale. The genre is also known as bucolic, from the Gr**** βουκολικόν, from βουκόλος, meaning a cowherd. Pastoral...
- also called the Bucolics, is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. Taking as his generic model the Gr**** bucolic poetry of Theocritus...
- Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling...
- Bucolics is a sequence of poems by W. H. Auden written in 1952 and 1953. The seven poems in the sequence are: "Winds", "Woods, "Mountains", "Lakes", "Islands"...
- shutterfests, Ryan and Blake recoup and re-center their family on 1.8 acres of a bucolic garden estate in Pound Ridge, NY. Mizoguchi, Karen (August 6, 2020). "Taylor...
- The Eclogues are two Latin hexameter poems in the bucolic style by Dante Alighieri, named after Virgil's Eclogues. The two poems are the 68-verse Vidimus...
- those that depicted [bucolic] imagery. The season imagery shows the cycle of life and the cosmic order of things, while the bucolic imagery portrays an...
- consisting of poems whose authorship was doubtful yet formed a corpus of bucolic poetry, the other a strict collection of those works considered to have...
- shun (such as groves springs and caves) "are strongly ****ociated with the bucolic genre, to the extent of occasionally standing in as its meta-linguistic...
- Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes, scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with a theatrical air. Some of his best known...