What does "bucolic" mean?
Bucolic: Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral; rustic.
Additional senses
- 2.A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Virgil. Dryden.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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