pastorale
noun
an opera, cantata, or the like, with a pastoral subject.
pastorales
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pluralof pastorale.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Naseem listened to the same songs, watched the same videos and simply asserted himself, identities be damned, into Bruce’s empathetic pastorales.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
“Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2017
Actually, Thomas, who has written pastorales as convincing and sweet as a haystack, probably never shot a bird, rode a horse, caught a fish.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pastorales are open-air dramas, like the moralities and mysteries of the middle ages.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
Just why these arbitrary pastorales should suggest meads and syrinxes, and dancing shepherds, it would be hard to tell.
