Meaning & use
Idylls
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Short poems or prose pieces describing peaceful, picturesque scenes, typically of rural or pastoral life, or such scenes themselves.
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Tennyson's 'Idylls of the King' retells the legends of King Arthur in verse.
The painting captured one of those quiet countryside idylls, with sheep grazing beside a stream.
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From Greek eidyllion, 'little picture,' idyll originally referred to short descriptive poems before broadening to mean any charmingly peaceful scene.
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