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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Eclogue \Ec"logue\, n. [L. ecloga Gr ? a selection, choice extracts, fr ? to pick out choose out ? out + ? to gather, choose: cf F. ['e]gloque, ['e]cloque. See {Ex-}, and {Legend}.] A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other a bucolic; an idyl; as the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: eclogue n : a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: {bucolic}, {idyll}]
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