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
He could be a small businessman decompressing amiably between a week's rash of orders and the idyl of a suburban weekend.
From Time Magazine Archive
Disclosure by the Senate of their August idyl quickly brought "the boys" into the spotlight.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Brook Farm was an idyl; and in the days of epics, the idyl is easily forgotten.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
