Definition of "campestral" []

• Of, relating to, or growing in uncultivated land or open fields. (adjective)

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• "This contained a liberal amount of sonorous words derived from the Latin, such as "campestral," "lapidescent,""
• "Goya room in the basement there was a series of scenes from Spanish life, mostly frolic campestral things, which he did as patterns for tapestries and which came near being enough in their way: the way of that reality which is so far from the reality of Velasquez."
• "In either case, the wonder of their beauty is the same; and whatever is primitive and sylvan or campestral in the reader's heart is touched by the spells thrown on the simple black lives in these enchanting tales."