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‖ pastourelle|pasturɛl|
[Fr., = little shepherdess, shepherdess's song, fourth figure in a quadrille; fem. of pastoureau; = It. pastorella ‘a prettie Shepheardesse’ (Florio), fem. of pastorello, dim. of pastore shepherd.]
a. A medieval lyric whose theme is love for a shepherdess. Also attrib.
1882A. B. Grosart Spenser's Compl. Wks. III. p. li, Equally vital to an adequate apprehension and comprehension of Spenser as a pastoral poet, is a like vision and grasp of the mediæval pastourelle, or courting of a shepherdess by a man of rank. 1908Mod. Philol. VI. 33 A pastourelle is a simple poem set in a rustic scene, graceful and trifling in tone, describing the meeting of a man of culture and an ingenue, generally a shepherdess. 1929C. R. Baskervill Elizabethan Jig i. i. 26 The dominance of the pastourelle figure Marian in the Robin Hood cycle would argue for song drama. Ibid. i. viii. 253 The rôle of the Gentleman, recalling that of the gentleman or knight of the pastourelles who pursues the sweetheart of the shepherd or clown. 1933R. Tuve Seasons & Months iv. 97 The lady is the one figure in the spring landscape that we may come to expect..in aube, pastourelle or chanson de danse. 1965P. Dronke Med. Latin & Rise Europ. Love-Lyric I. iv. 214 The motif of the young girl scolded or beaten by her parents..on account of her lover is most frequent in the pastourelle.
b. One of the figures in a quadrille, resembling the dance of shepherds and shepherdesses.
1890in Cent. Dict. |