Word to the Wise: Bucolic

"Bucolic" (byoo-KOL-ik) - from the Greek for "herdsman" - means pertaining to or suggesting an idyllic rural life.

Example (as used by Ada Calhoun in a New York Times review of American Eve): "[Evelyn Nesbit] had a bucolic childhood in Pennsylvania until her father’s sudden death, which plunged the family into penury."

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