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- noun Plural form of
pastourelle .
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Examples
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"pastourelles," the wise or foolish heroines of which are shepherdesses;
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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He had already written four others, the "Disputation des pastourelles"
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The poem, a simple discourse or dispute between two lovers, something in the style of some French _pastourelles_, displays however, with some of the exaggeration and stock phrase of Provençal (perhaps we might say of all) love-poetry, little or nothing of that peculiar mystical tone which we have been accustomed to associate with early
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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_jeuspartis_, _pastourelles_, _ballades_ -- of all the literary forms in fact which were then cultivated.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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_pastourelles_, Marie's friends and relatives; two or three respectable matrons, her neighbours, loquacious, quick of reply, and rigid guardians of ancient usages; then she selected a dozen vigorous champions from her kinsmen and friends; and lastly, the old
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 Various 1841
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1 Various other kinds of lyric poetry begin to appear at the end of the twelfth century, motots, serventois, pastourelles, rotrouenges, rondeaux, lais, ballettes, and virelais.
Introduction 1920
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