Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Bucolic
Bucolic indicates something that comes from the country or reminds one of rural life or pastoral pursuits. It is a highly poetic word, given the hardscrabble life that many farmers and other country folk had to endure. It derives from the Greek bous--ox given that a boukolous was an oxherd .
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