Eclogue

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Eclogue \Ec"logue\, n. [L. ecloga, Gr. ? a selection, choice
     extracts, fr. ? to pick out, choose out; 'ek out + ? to
     gather, choose: cf. F. ['e]gloque, ['e]cloque. See {Ex-}, and
     {Legend}.]
     A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing
     with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of


     Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been
     established.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  eclogue
       n : a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: {bucolic},
            {idyll}]