Definition of pastourelle in English:
pastourelle
(also pastorela)
nounPlural pastourelles, Plural pastorelas ˌpastʊˈrɛl
A medieval lyric whose theme is love for a shepherdess.
（中世纪以对牧羊女的爱为主题的）田园抒情诗
Example sentencesExamples
- He discovers her presence when he hears her singing a pastourelle.
- Others, such as the chanson de toile (weaving-song) and the pastourelle, hint at popular traditions of song.
- The French pastourelles offer examples of this type of exchange.
- In this sense the novel is the long-delayed answer of the lower classes to the courtly pastourelle… It is a protest, democratic and sentimental at once, against the courtly love codes and the sexual tyranny which they disguised.
- His essay, ‘The Figure of the Shepherdess in the Medieval Pastourelle,’ is an example of the transition of the figure of shepherdess in medieval French pastourelle.
- Maid Marion is not part of the original tales and likely comes from French pastourelles where she was associated with a shepherd Robin.
Origin
French, feminine of pastoureau 'shepherd'.