idyll
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When Adam Dunlop and his young family built their dream family home in the Northern Irish countryside, they never imagined that the fields around their idyll would become an illegal dumping ground for dead animals.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
It begins with a suburban idyll, bedroom curtains milky white in the morning sunlight, a mother waking to the radio, father and son out for an early bike ride.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Niigata prefecture is a coastal idyll of steep mountains and lush rice paddies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
In her columns for “Smart Housekeeping,” Elizabeth presides over an idyll of New England domesticity.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2025
So we zealously set to work to create an idyll—an idyll of eating and sleeping of course.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
Vocabulary lists containing idyll
Poetry: Genres
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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