agrestic

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Sounds a bit twee to me, but a some of the words have an agrestic charm whilst others are both fubsy and reborant.

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  1. Rural; rustic; pertaining to fields or the country; unpolished. [Rare.] Cowley retreated into solitude, where he found none of the agrestic charms of the landscapes of his muse. I. D'Israeli, Calam. of Authors, I. 64.

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  1. from Latin agrestis, rural, rustic, from ager, field: see agrarian and acre.
 

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