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Webster 1913 Edition
Pastorale
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Pasˊto-ra′le
,Noun.
[It.]
1.
(Mus.)
A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.
2.
A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.
Definition 2024
pastorale
pastorale
English
Noun
pastorale (plural pastorales)
- a play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject
- art that is suggestive of pastoral themes
- She was in the country, painting her first pastorale.
Italian
Adjective
pastorale m, f (masculine and feminine plural pastorali)
Noun
pastorale f (plural pastorali)
pastorale m (plural pastorali)
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Latin
Adjective
pastōrāle
- nominative neuter singular of pastōrālis
- accusative neuter singular of pastōrālis
- vocative neuter singular of pastōrālis
References
- PASTORALE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)