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Pastorale


Pasˊto-ra′le

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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)

  1. a play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject
  2. art that is suggestive of pastoral themes
    • She was in the country, painting her first pastorale.

French

Adjective

pastorale

  1. feminine of pastoral

German

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːlə

Adjective

pastorale

  1. inflected form of pastoral

Italian

Adjective

pastorale m, f (masculine and feminine plural pastorali)

  1. pastoral
  2. bucolic
  3. rural

Noun

pastorale f (plural pastorali)

  1. pastoral (letter)
  2. (music) pastorale

pastorale m (plural pastorali)

  1. crook, crosier

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Latin

Adjective

pastōrāle

  1. nominative neuter singular of pastōrālis
  2. accusative neuter singular of pastōrālis
  3. vocative neuter singular of pastōrālis

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