pastoral

Definition

Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders of other livestock.

Etymology

From Middle French, Old French pastoral, from Latin pāstōrālis, from pāstor (“shepherd”), + adjective suffix -ālis.

Example Sentences

• "Like the Mesolithic age of 10,000-8000 B.C., the period 6000-4000 B.C. seems to be one of the fall of fortresses and the rise of pastoral nomadism."
• "We were living a pastoral life."
• "[…] these pastoral farms, / Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!"