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arcadian

[ahr-kay-dee-uhn] / ɑrˈkeɪ di ən /


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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

Messrs. Weeks, Work, Wallace and Hoover are Honorary Chairmen to lend prestige to the movement to lure the public to arcadian pleasures and rustic delights.

From Time Magazine Archive

He thanked God that he had come from the broad sunny vineyards of the Golden State, where life still touches the arcadian age,—not from this, as his wife had!

From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick




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