pastorale
- n a musical composition that evokes rural life
- But toward this happily perspiring pastorale, occasioned by the traditional Bank Holiday weekend, swept an oppressive storm.
- If Laura can truly be put in the woods that is, played as a kind of jazz pastoraleCalvin Jackson is the man to do it.
- Such a one is Mohammad, a blind Iranian boy played--no, inhabited--by Mohsen Ramezani in Majid Majidi's enthralling pastorale The Color of Paradise.