idyll
- Noun. Any poem or short written piece composed in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the ''Idylls''.
- Noun. An episode or series of events or circumstances of pastoral or rural simplicity, fit for an idyll; a carefree or lighthearted experience.
- Noun. (music) A composition, usually instrumental, of a pastoral or sentimental character, e.g. ''Siegfried Idyll'' by Richard Wagner.
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