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  • proper noun A poetic term for Arcadia, an ancient region of Greece with a tradition of rural, bucolic innocence.

Etymologies

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Greek Αρκαδία

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Examples

  • The graduation exercise involved a full-scale production of a play called The Arcady Trail.

    Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

  • The blend has been dubbed Arcady Ancient Cereals Bread Mix, and the company has also incorporated "anti-staling technology" to help the bread stay fresher for longer.

    FoodNavigator RSS 2010

  • He highlighted in A Benedick in Arcady the rules to be followed, tongue-in-cheek, by the "Complete Trespasser".

    Country diary: Langsett 2011

  • Credits include film Alexandre Arcady, TV series Grey's Anatomy and Six Feet Under, an international spot for H&M, and a handful-plus of releases to date.

    Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 172 Phil Ramone 2011

  • Opening this years festival was the NY Premiere of French film-maker Alexandre Arcady's action-packed Five Brothers, the Law & Order-like story of a Franco-Algerian family, whose loyalties and honor are challenged by its dark secrets.

    Richard Z. Chesnoff: Sephardic Film Festival: From Spanish Expulsion to Vidal Sassoon Richard Z. Chesnoff 2011

  • The most inspirational moment was when Angela Lansbury, age 83, danced across the stage to accept her award for best feature actress in a musical (Madame Arcady in Blythe Spirit), reminding us that age is just a number.

    Proud Parent Moment, New York Style aka TBTAM 2009

  • All of a sudden I'd be traveling down a country road, and everything clean and quiet, no dust, no dirt; just streams ripplin 'down sweet meadows, and lambs playing, breezes blowing the breath of flowers, and soft sunshine over everything; and lovely cows lazying knee-deep in quiet pools, and young girls bathing in a curve of stream all white and slim and natural – and I'd know I was in Arcady.

    The Night-Born 2010

  • She cooked in it for four years, reading a few Seaside Novels and dreaming of knights and Arcady, romantic palaces and fountains — these romantic reveries invariably interrupted by her husband Jake asking "Why ain't you served them beans?"

    “Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008

  • Parthenopaeus, a youth of peerless beauty; from Arcady he came even to the streams of Inachus, and in Argos spent his boyhood.

    The Suppliants 2008

  • Parthenopaeus, a youth of peerless beauty; from Arcady he came even to the streams of Inachus, and in Argos spent his boyhood.

    The Suppliants 2008

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