Usually means: Traditional Christmas play, good vs. evil.
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noun:  A traditional Mexican theater performance that chronicles the journeys of shepherds and shepherdesses on the way to visit the newborn Jesus, typically performed during Advent.
noun:  (historical) A type of Occitan lyric poetry in which a knight meets a shepherdess.
noun:  A work of such poetry.

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