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A traditional Mexican theater performance that chronicles the journeys of shepherds and shepherdesses on the way to visit the newborn Jesus, typically performed during Advent.
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noun
A type of Occitan lyric poetry in which a knight meets a shepherdess.
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noun
A type of Occitan lyric poetry in which a knight meets a shepherdess.
A work of such poetry.
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Usage: historical
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History
Borrowed from Spanish pastorela, from French pastourelle.
Learned borrowing from Old Occitan pastorela (“little shepherdess”), from pastor (“shepherd”) + -ela (feminine diminutive suffix). Compare etymology 1.
