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Rustic

adjective

Characteristic of rural life. Synonyms: countrified, countryfied. "Rustic awkwardness"

Awkwardly simple and provincial. Synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated. "Rustic farmers" , "A hick town" , "The nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"

Characteristic of the fields or country. Synonym: agrestic. "Rustic stone walls"

noun

An unsophisticated country person.

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"Rustic" Quotes from Famous Books

... place in a densely shaded alley of the garden of the Palazzo Costi one sultry afternoon of the early autumn. The youthful couple were seated very near each other upon a rustic bench. Massetti held Zuleika's small, soft hand in his and the electric touch of her tiny and shapely fingers thrilled him as the touch of female fingers had never thrilled him before. He gazed into the liquid depths of her dark, glowing eyes and their subtile fire seemed to melt his ...

— Monte-Cristo's Daughter • Edmund Flagg

... warned us that the shortening days must soon end our twilight drives, and the moonlight nights were too chilly to linger long in the rustic arbors or shady nooks outside. With the peculiar charm of this season of the year there is always a touch of sadness in nature, and it seemed doubly so to me, as my engagement was not one of unmixed joy and satisfaction. Among all conservative ...

— Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... above Jove's classic sway A place was won it: The rustic sculptor motioned; then ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

... intolerably dull, that she hated the quiet of the place, that she longed for Leeds, and the exciting bustle of the streets; and in the evenings she wrote long letters to the girl-friends she had left behind there, describing with petulant vivacity her tribe of rustic admirers. At the harvest-time she went back on a fortnight's visit to friends; the evening before her departure she promised Anthony to give him her answer on her return. But, instead, she avoided him, pretended ...

— Victorian Short Stories • Various

... We ought however clearly to understand whether 'agrestis,' used by English botanists, is meant to imply a literally field flower, or only a 'rustic' one, which might as properly grow in a wood. I shall always myself use 'agrestis' in the literal sense, and 'rustica' for 'rustique.' I see no reason, in the present case, for separating the Polite from the Rustic flower: the agrestis, D. 449 ...

— Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin

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