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May. 18, 2015

bucolic \byoo-KOL-ik\ adjective 1. of, pertaining to, or suggesting an idyllic rural life. 2. of or pertaining to shepherds; pastoral. Quotes She and Blaine took the train to Princeton to look for an apartment, and she was struck by the town itself, the greenness, the peace and grace of it… "It was almost bucolic then. I visited and thought it was beautiful but I just couldn't see myself actually going there." -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, 2013 Origin Bucolic comes from the Greek word for "herdsman," boukólos. It entered English in the mid-1500s.

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