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De - Pt| English Dictionary: eclogue | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Eclogue \Ec"logue\, n. [L. ecloga, Gr. [?] a selection, choice extracts, fr. [?] to pick out, choose out; [?] out + [?] to gather, choose: cf. F. [82]gloque, [82]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. | |
