Hypertext Webster Gateway: "eclogue"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eclogue \Ec"logue\, n. [L. ecloga, Gr. ? a selection, choice
extracts, fr. ? to pick out, choose out; ? out + ? to gather,
choose: cf. F. ['e]gloque, ['e]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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
eclogue
n : a short descriptive poem of rural or pastoral life [syn: {bucolic},
{idyll}]
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