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noun a musical composition that evokes rural life
noun a letter from a pastor to the congregation
noun a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
originFrom Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pāstōrālis, from pāstor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -ālis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0