1. short poems or prose pieces describing peaceful rural or pastoral scenes
Usage: literary
2. peaceful, happy periods or situations, especially in the countryside

Examples

• The poet wrote several idylls about shepherds and their flocks.
• Tennyson’s ‘Idylls of the King’ retells Arthurian legends.
• Their summer vacations were perfect idylls of swimming and hiking.
• The small village represented one of those rare idylls of simple living.
• She remembered the idylls of her childhood spent on her grandmother’s farm.
• The book contained pastoral idylls celebrating country life.