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arcadian

[ US /ˌɑɹˈkeɪdiən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
    charming in its pastoral setting
    a pleasant bucolic scene
    a country life of arcadian contentment
    rustic tranquility

How To Use arcadian In A Sentence

  • The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
  • If Acosta and Nuñez somewhat sophisticated it, two nights later Johan Kobborg and Alina Cojocaru - yet another first-timer - relocated its Arcadian heart.
  • One in five of the pilots in the Battle of Britain came from overseas and, far from fighting for an Arcadian Britain, some were revenging the invasion of their homelands.
  • Aeschines was sent on an embassy to Megalopolis where he sought to dissuade the assembly of the Arcadians from dealings with Philip II.
  • The putti celebrate the pleasures of life in vignettes representing an arcadian fantasy.
  • We also found conglomeratic rocks on the Arcadian side, which indicates rivers. Worlds in a grain of sand
  • Admittedly instant streetscapes and arcadian landscapes don't seed at the same pace, yet they are both populist responses to the ‘problem’ of the built environment's rather tiresome insistence on weathering at a stately pace.
  • Even as the drizzle mizzles down relentlessly on the site, it is a truly Arcadian setting.
  • Though some of these works are significant Samuel Palmer's Arcadian landscape bathed in a pink-and-gold sunset; Arthur Melville's nightscape of Venice, golden stone rising through a velvet blue-black sky, they form in aggregate the least interesting body of work in the show. Medium is message at Tate Britain 'Watercolour' show
  • MEDITERRANEAN KIWI said ... please excuse me for forgetting to mention that the commentators know their greek well: the terms KLEPHT and EXOHIKO are common greek words whose meanings are clear. as for that word TRADITIONAL, clearly salmon klephtiko doesn't fit into the tradition: where on earth would an arcadian find salmon? and if an arcadian of the foregone klepht era ever managed to get one, i wonder whether they would ever think to cook it klepht style? no, they couldnt possibly have put it in their head to do so - it just wouldnt be TRADITIONAL (les kai kollousan sto noima tis lexeis) if i were an arcadian in the late 1800's and i were given a gift of salmon, i would definitely have cooked it klepht style, because i wouldnt have wanted even the NEIGHBOURS to find out what delicacy i was cooking ... what on earth is the traditonal method of cooking salmon in arcadia anyway??? Recipe for Salmon "Kleftiko" (Σολομός Κλέφτικος) and Kleftiko: Its Modern Meaning
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