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champêtre [ʃɑ̃pɛtʀ]
adjective: country; rural; rustic; countryside; pastoral
Etymology: Inherited from Old French champestre, from Latin campestrem.
Decades flow past an open kitchen door at a small but rambling stone farmhouse in rural France. I watch the tractors roll by, another year on their way to protest their pli…
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