halcyon

HAL-see-uhn, adjective

Blissfully calm and prosperous, especially of a remembered past.

“He talks of the halcyon summers before the highway came.”

Where halcyon comes from

A bird in Greek myth that nested on the sea and calmed it for two weeks.

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