rustic

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people. See Synonyms at rural.
  2. adjective Lacking refinement or elegance; coarse.
  3. adjective Charmingly simple or unsophisticated.
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  • Customers will most likely prefer to either bring their own inline skates or rent traditional skates for a rustic, vintage experience. —  Paly Voice
  • Try an old-fashioned food mill for a rustic, country-style texture.
  • For our rustic, backwoods well we would pound the pipe 30 'into the soil. —  Life In The Great Midwest
  • This rustic is a contemptible creature. —  Maxim Gorki
  • So he retired; and subsequently dressed himself as a rustic, and smeared his face so that he might not be recognised, and hung about the party, offering to carry things, and so on. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
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rural ·  rude ·  homely ·  humble ·  quaint ·  pretty ·  stately ·  primitive ·  courtly ·  old-fashioned
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English rustik, from Old French rustique, from Latin rūsticus, from rūs, country; see reuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English rustick; from Old French rustique (vernacularly ruiste, rustre, later English roister), French rustique = Provencal rustic, rostic, ruste = Spanish rústico = Portuguese Italian rustico, from Latin rusticus, belonging to the country, from rūs (rur-), the country: see rural.
 

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