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
In 1939, the year of America's last idyl, friends and family play out their lives in the Midwestern mill town, impervious to the Great Depression and the war that has already begun a world away.
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
Eventually the tribe must leave its forest idyl behind to confront the wintry realities of a society gripped by an irrational war.
From Time Magazine Archive
The love scenes in this narrative are idyllic; in fact, the whole book is an idyl.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
