idyll
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Only in the 1980s did development get under way, eventually producing an exclusive idyll just south of Miami Beach with roughly 800 residences, accessible only by ferry or yacht.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
In adulthood, the need for ready money forced each of the Brontës to leave their creative idyll for a time—all of them worked as educators—before returning home.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025
"It's a beautiful, unspoilt rural idyll that somehow exists in its own timelessness, as if awaiting the return of John Constable," wrote Barclay in a review posted in October 2024.
From BBC • Jul. 10, 2025
The dates and places were correct; his description of his boyhood as a typical country idyll was most certainly a fabrication.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing idyll
Poetry: Genres
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - High School
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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