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pastorale

pastorale noun: a play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject.

Noun

pastorale (plural pastorales or pastorali)

  1. A play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject.
  2. An artwork that is suggestive of pastoral themes.
    • She was in the country, painting her first pastorale.
  3. One of the figures of a quadrille.

Forms of pastorale

pluralpastorales
pluralpastorali

Origin of pastorale

From French, from Middle French pastorale; or from Italian pastorale, hence the plural pastorali.

Questions about pastorale

What does pastorale mean?
Pastorale means a play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject.
What part of speech is pastorale?
Pastorale is a noun.
What is the plural of pastorale?
The plural of pastorale is pastorales.

Words near pastorale in the dictionary

  1. pastoral charges
  2. Pastoral Epistle
  3. Pastoral Epistles
  4. pastoral letter
  5. pastoral letters
  6. pastorale
  7. pastorales
  8. pastorali
  9. pastoralise
  10. pastoralised
  11. pastoralises

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