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[SIL-vahn] 
adjective
1. relating to or characteristic of wooded regions: "The chaos of dead leaves and branches form a perfect sylvan order on the forest floor."
2. inhabiting or located in the woods or forest
3. abounding in trees or forests; wooded
noun
4. a person or spirit that lives in or frequents a forest; a rustic
also: silvan
Origin:
Approximately 1565; borrowed from Middle French, 'sylvain,' and directly from Latin, 'silvanus': pertaining to forest, also 'Silvanus': god of the woods, from 'silva': a forest. In action:
"Inside, under a proscenium arch decorated with sylvan nymphs idly plucking at harps, Black and his once and future bandmates gathered to make such a glorious, unholy racket you could practically feel the painted leaves peeling off the wall and fluttering down in desperation. In between his infernal howls, Black was grinning."
Mike Doherty. "For love or money, the Pixies came back," The Globe and Mail (April 17, 2004).
"Thomas Demand's big color photographs of things that look real but turn out to be carefully constructed of paper, plastic and other inexpensive materials are as visually striking and philosophically provocative as ever.
'Clearing' is a 17-foot-wide vision of a dense forest interior with sunlight streaming into the middle. Then you see that each of those thousands of green leaves is cut from green paper and attached to painted brown branches. You find yourself flipping back and forth between the sylvan romance and the comical phoniness. 'Space Simulator' is an exterior view of a complicated, boxy machine used to train astronauts in the 1960's. Reconstructed -- or, simulated -- in its actual size by Mr. Demand, it also looks paradoxically hyperreal and surrealistically simplified in his 13-by-11-foot picture."
Ken Johnson. "Art in Review: Thomas Demand," The New York Times (March 26, 2004).
"A Palm Beach Post reporter recently spent three days at the monastery on retreat. In general, those on retreat spend several days at the facility, occupying prayer stalls in church adjacent to those of the monks, eating in a refectory next to but separate from that of the monks. Visitors can arrange meetings with monks to discuss spiritual problems and can also use the gardens and sylvan setting for peace and contemplation.
Mepkin Abbey, founded in 1949, sits on 3,200 acres, most of it wooded and undeveloped. The land was donated to the monks by Henry Luce, a founder of Time-Life publications, and his wife, Claire Booth Luce, a congresswoman, ambassador and author. They are buried on the grounds.
The abbey is beautiful -- the word 'Mepkin' comes from a local Native American language and means 'serene' and 'lovely.'"
John Lantigua. "Where a fallen bishop goes to heal," The Palm Beach Post (April 18, 2004).
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