Arcady
See also: arcady
English
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía).
Proper noun
Arcady
- (poetic) Arcadia, an ancient region of Greece with a tradition of rural, bucolic innocence.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXIII, page 40:
- […] And many an old philosophy
On Argive heights divinely sang,
And round us all the thicket rang
To many a flute of Arcady.
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