Synonyms for pastorals

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pas-ter-uhl, pah-ster-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpæs tər əl, ˈpɑ stər-

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Définition of pastorals

Origin : "of or pertaining to shepherds," early 15c., from Old French pastoral (13c.), from Latin pastoralis "of herdsmen, of shepherds," from pastor (see pastor (n.)). The noun sense of "poem dealing with country life generally" is from 1580s.

As in sermon : noun instructive speech with a moral

Example sentences :

Mr. Fitzgerald took up the proof-sheet and read one of the pastorals.
Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson

The works of Virgil: containing his pastorals, georgics, and neis.
Extract from : « The Library of William Congreve » by John C. Hodges

Of late, since you have listened to the pastorals of that meek Corydon!
Extract from : « Lucretia, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A cumber-world, yet in the world am left;' Drayton, Pastorals, Ecl.
Extract from : « Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) » by Geoffrey Chaucer

But this passion does all, not only in pastorals, but in modern tragedies too.
Extract from : « Dryden's Works (13 of 18): Translations; Pastorals » by John Dryden

Here we learn that Dennis thought meanly of Pope's Pastorals.
Extract from : « The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 (of 10) » by Alexander Pope

Boucher painted her handsome being as a shepherdess in one of his pastorals.
Extract from : « Boucher » by Haldane Macfall

And then Agricola's pastorals, and the timid literary confidences of Magdalen!
Extract from : « The Wandering Jew, Complete » by Eugene Sue

His Pastorals may be "chic'd," but there they are, done—unrivalled, supreme.
Extract from : « Watteau » by C. Lewis Hind

All his other pictures, even the greatest of his Pastorals, have the air of being imagined.
Extract from : « Watteau » by C. Lewis Hind

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