idyll
noun
a delightful, tranquil rural scene or episode, reminiscent of or suitable for pastoral art or literature.
idyl
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a variation of
idyll.
Example Sentences
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We were like lovers estranged, searching for a lost idyl that couldn't be reclaimed.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2022
The Pulitzer-Prizewinning idyl, All the Way Home; A Far Country, which might also be titled Young Dr. Freud; and A Taste of Honey, a gentle treatment of some bitter episodes, are the only survivors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Characters and Their Landscapes, is no celebration of the romantic idyl.
From Time Magazine Archive
He seems to be savoring his island idyl as if the relativities of war, chance and change had already foreclosed it, as indeed they subsequently did.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was not a sentimental finale to an idyl of the wood, but by the time the finale is reached, the average human specimen has no sentiment to waste.
From Told In The Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan
