If when you hear the phrase eat-in kitchen you think a) yeah right, or b) does standing next to my countertop count? , then to you I say this: consider the wall-mounted drop leaf table.
Pastoral poetry is a genre that typically relates to country/rural life and often depicts the lives of shepherds. This sort of poetry describes the simple and pure lives of the shepherds, along with the notion that they are free from the corruption of life in the city.
Word Origin and History for pastoral Expand. adj. of or pertaining to shepherds, early 15c., from Old French pastoral (13c.), from Latin pastoralis of herdsmen, of shepherds, from pastor (see pastor (n.)). The noun sense of poem dealing with country life generally is from 1580s.