bucolic

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The former rodeo performer and announcer came to Palm Springs in 1927 and rented horses to tourists in the desert oasis known as a bucolic winter getaway for riding and hiking.

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  1. adjective Of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic. See Synonyms at rural.
  2. adjective Of or characteristic of shepherds or flocks; pastoral.
  3. noun A pastoral poem.
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  • He joked about her bucolic isolation, with equal kindness Luke's relationship with Elwen went deeper than any other, Lucky knew. —  AnalogSF,Dec2003
  • But so bucolic are the portions that, in the absence of the aforementioned stomach pump, we couldn't handle even one pudding between us. —  The Guardian World News
  • It was this bucolic, historical New Canaan that lured Kip Farrell back to town after a long absence. —  Welcome to Hersam Acorn Newspapers
  • The former rodeo performer and announcer came to Palm Springs in 1927 and rented horses to tourists in the desert oasis known as a bucolic winter getaway for riding and hiking. —  wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
  • The proposed pact marks an unprecedented and risky attempt to disarm about 2,000 Taliban fighters, who have invaded and terrorized a once-bucolic area of 1.5 million people in northwestern Pakistan, by offering to install a strict system of Islamic law in the surrounding district. —  GetReligion
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  1. Latin būcolicus, pastoral, from Greek boukolikos, from boukolos, cowherd : bous, cow; see gwou- in Indo-European roots + -kolos, herdsman; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin bucolicus, from Greek βουκολικός, rustic, pastoral, from βουκόλος, a cowherd, herdsman, from βοῦς, an ox (see Bos), + -κόλος perhaps for -πόλος, as in αἰπόλος, a goatherd, from πέλειν, move, πέλεσθαι, be; otherwise connected with κέλης, a race-horse, Latin celer, swift, Sanskrit √ kal, drive.
 

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