arcadian

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Most naturist resorts are arcadian retreats from city life.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2015

It idealises its lowlifes as if they were arcadian shepherds, not so very remote from the outlaws, buckaroos, rodeo riders and Appalachian rustics in Aaron Copland's ballets.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2010

The elegant ladies in long robes who cavort under a canopy of trees in Cross’s arcadian “L’Air du Soir” feel entirely decorative and superfluous.

From Washington Post

Americans' emblematic visions of their country incline toward the arcadian -- cabins in a peaceable countryside, a small town with no entertainment wilder than a Sousa band in the park.

From Time Magazine Archive

And if we may accept the impressions of an English observer, life in the Shenandoah Valley was in happy accord, in the middle of the century, with the arcadian simplicity of these ideals.

From Beginnings of the American People by Dodd, William E.