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bucolic

adjective

[Gr. a herdsman; pastoral; L. buculus, an ox; bucolicus, pertaining to cattle, pastoral.]

Pastoral; relating to country affairs and to a shepherd’s life and occupation.

noun

A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners and occupation of shepherds; as the bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil.

Awriter of pastorals.