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Rustic   /rˈəstɪk/   Listen
Rustic

adjective
1.
Characteristic of rural life.  Synonyms: countrified, countryfied.  "Rustic awkwardness"
2.
Awkwardly simple and provincial.  Synonyms: bumpkinly, hick, unsophisticated.  "Rustic farmers" , "A hick town" , "The nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
3.
Characteristic of the fields or country.  Synonym: agrestic.  "Rustic stone walls"
noun
1.
An unsophisticated country person.



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"Rustic" Quotes from Famous Books



... than anything else; this indeed was obvious, because he had acquired no skill in the arts. [2] Consequently, while I was pressing Michel Agnolo with arguments he could not answer, he turned round sharply to Urbino, as though to ask him his opinion. The fellow began to bawl out in his rustic way: "I will never leave my master Michel Agnolo's side till I shall have flayed him or he shall have flayed me." These stupid words forced me to laugh, and without saying farewell, I ...
— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini
... low erection, divided by a rough partition into two—our room and the Morgans'; most of our meals being eaten in the big rustic porch contrived by Morgan in what he called his spare time, and over which ran wildly the most beautiful passion-flower I had ...
— Mass' George - A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah • George Manville Fenn
... that is those of us who are in good society, that what this uncouth rustic mistook for indifference is the air of society. TALLEYRAND said, or somebody said he said, that the use of language was to conceal thought. Go to WALLACK'S and you will see that the art of acting is to suppress emotions. Everything ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., Issue 31, October 29, 1870 • Various
... difficult to do by force he accomplished by stratagem. A shepherd whom he had captured told him of the weakness of the garrison, and acquainted him with a method by which the city might be entered. Forcing the rustic to act as guide, Magued crossed the river on a stormy night, swimming the stream with his horses, each cavalier having a footman mounted behind him. By the time they reached the opposite shore the rain had changed to hail, whose loud pattering drowned ...
— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII • Charles Morris
... the rustic bench, and the sea-breeze wantoned amongst the quivering leaves of the chestnut-tree that overhung ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book V • Edward Bulwer Lytton


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