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Meanings of arcadian in English

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(Used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic.

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Examples for "rustic"
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Wood paneling creates a rustic feel well suited to the open road.
Wired
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The supporting cast of independent, rustic characters deliver their lines without conviction.
The Irish Times
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It was more rustic and unrestrained-morein the nature of a picnic.
South Wind
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The real rustic does think London the finest place on the planet.
Alarms and Discursions
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She belonged in an atmosphere too sophisticated for his simple rustic soul.
Madcap
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Ryan and fellow Republicans, however, said the lawmakers needed better pastoral care.
Reuters
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This is rich, pastoral land, where food and wine take centre stage.
The Irish Times
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One cannot but admire the heroic pastoral work done by Fr Good.
The Irish Times
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Weller adds that universities need to provide far more structured pastoral care.
The Guardian
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And so ended the pastoral of the emperor and the village maid.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
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That at least is the bucolic image advanced by the energy industry.
The Guardian
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The enmity between the urban and the bucolic has deep historical roots.
The Belgian Curtain: Europe after Communism
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And with the look his affectation of bucolic calm dropped from him.
The Sturdy Oak / A composite Novel of American Politics by fourt...
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Jeff settled in bucolic Putney, married a photographer, and had two children.
The Council of Dads
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The countryside changes but retains a comforting familiarity, a snowy bucolic theme.
The Guardian
Usage of arcadian in English
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It is a simple arcadian life, and people live more happily than any that I have seen elsewhere.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Our diversions, dependent on a love of odorous fields, colorful hills and fruitful vines, were of arcadian content.
A Daughter of the Middle Border
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He thought he could turn back time to reach an arcadian idyll that had only existed in myths and legends.
Bryant & may on the loose: a peculiar crimes unit mystery
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She would fit in anywhere-inthe highest places, with her grace, and her nobleness of mind, arcadian, passionate and beautiful.
The Right of Way — Volume 05
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They made of Saint Margaret's an arcadian refuge, where the Founder wandered all day and every day like a patron saint.
The Primrose Ring
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No adequate social prevention can in any way be provided by the more or less arcadian devices of the prisoners' aid societies.
Criminal Sociology
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Sometimes he encountered an imperial column; sometimes he came to an arcadian square flooded with light and resonant with the fall of statued fountains.
Lothair
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The Arcadian atmosphere of Vincennes clothed him in its mists and dreams.
Alice of Old Vincennes
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Know also that at the north gate is set Parthenopæus the Arcadian.
Stories from the Greek Tragedians
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Because he'd been mated by the Fates to the Arcadian bears' sister.
No mercy
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It is a foolish thing to do, but it is preëminently Arcadian.
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations
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This Arcadian state of kitchen affairs went on for exactly a fortnight.
Station Amusements in New Zealand
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And, most noted of all, there came the Arcadian huntress maid, Atalanta.
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
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That being so, they were quite ready to accept an Arcadian alliance.
Hellenica
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Will Mr. Frazer give the Arcadian bear 'the benefit of the doubt'?
Modern Mythology
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You see, Jack, we are not the Arcadian simpletons you think us.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
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