an episode of such pastoral or romantic charm as to qualify as the subject of a poetic idyll
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a musical composition that evokes rural life
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a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life
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Idyl \I"dyl\, n. [L. idyllium, Gr. ?, fr. ? form; literally, a little form of image: cf. F. idylle. See {Idol}.] A short poem; properly, a short pastoral poem; as, the idyls of Theocritus; also, any poem, especially a narrative or descriptive poem, written in an eleveted and highly finished style; also, by extension, any artless and easily flowing description, either in poetry or prose, of simple, rustic life, of pastoral scenes, and the like. [Written also {idyll}.]
His [Goldsmith's] lovely idyl of the Vicar's home. --F. Harrison.
Perhaps to find a way of ending Jody's island idyll and letting her return to mainland reality.
Geraldine Ferraro said on "Nightline" that the media revelations about this 50-year-old married man's Bimini idyll with a 29-year-old actress obscured his rectitude on, among other things, Women's Issues!
HOK and Cheveley Johnston suggest a price around Pounds 400,000. The Mill House on the River Slaney at Clonegal, Bunclody in Co Wexford is an idyll.
But the idyll of regular, warm togetherness at the table often doesn't work out.
The temple is in a northeast region called Sorak, or "Snow Hills," a tourist idyll of picturesque mountains, forests, waterfalls and deep ravines.
But at least in Britain few believe that enormous subsidies are essential for the maintenance of the rural idyll. The Italians probably have the right attitude towards the countryside.
The rural idyll is no mere dream and, he suggests, is achievable with local support and understanding: 'West Oxfordshire District Council has been wonderful - they have backed promising projects.