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pastorale


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pastorale  \Pas`to*ra"le\,  n.  [It.] 
  1.  (Mus.)  A  composition  in  a  soft,  rural  style,  generally  in 
  6-8  or  12-8  time. 
 
  2.  A  kind  of  dance;  a  kind  of  figure  used  in  a  dance. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pastorale 
  n  :  a  musical  composition  that  evokes  rural  life  [syn:  {pastoral}, 
  {idyll}] 




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