Meaning

3 senses
  1. A play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject.

  2. An artwork that is suggestive of pastoral themes.

    She was in the country, painting her first pastorale.

  3. One of the figures of a quadrille.

More definitions
  • a musical composition that evokes rural life

Origin

From French, from Middle French pastorale; or from Italian pastorale, hence the plural pas

From French, from Middle French pastorale; or from Italian pastorale, hence the plural pastorali.

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Forms

plural: pastorales / pastorali
Singularpastorale
Pluralpastorales / pastorali

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

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