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adjective

Rustic adj.

1.

Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. "Rustic lays." "And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." "She had a rustic, woodland air."

2.

Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. "A rustic muse."

3.

Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.

4.

Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.

Rustic moth (Zool.), any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larvae are called cutworms. See Cutworm.

Rustic work.

(a)

(Arch.) Cut stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are very conspicuous.

(b)

(Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged.

Synonyms: Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward; rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless; honest. See Rural.

noun

Rustic n.

1.

An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown. "Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away."

2.

A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person. (Poetic)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rustic" Quotes from Famous Books

... A rustic once came to James and discussed prayer. The Master said you should pray in few words and not, as the heathens do, in a great many words, for the Father knows our needs. Well, he had once prayed just in that way, using few words, but his prayer had ...

— I.N.R.I. - A prisoner's Story of the Cross • Peter Rosegger

... mysterious event. Not far from my dormer window, a little to the left, stood the Inn Boeuf-Gras, an old auberge much patronized throughout the country. Three or four wagons, filled with sacks or casks, were always drawn up before the door, where the rustic drivers were in the habit of stopping, on their way to the market, to take their morning draught ...

— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne

... acquired was so wholly hidden, that they partook of the nature of conjuring. In this way it came to pass that those scattered linen-weavers—emigrants from the town into the country—were to the last regarded as aliens by their rustic neighbours, and usually contracted the eccentric habits which belong to ...

— Silas Marner - The Weaver of Raveloe • George Eliot

... privacy and shelter; but she had not gone far before, on turning an abrupt corner, she came suddenly upon the figure of the gentleman she had been introduced to the night before, Mr. Laurence, who she had imagined to be with the shooting party. He was half lying, half sitting across a rustic seat which encircled the huge trunk of an old tree, with his eyes bent upon the ground and a cigar between his lips. He was more an intellectual and fine-looking than a handsome man, but he possessed two gifts which are much more winning ...

— Masterpieces of Mystery - Riddle Stories • Various

... royal pair at my 'umble home, all its surroundings began to lose the charm of rustic simplicity, and appear shabby, inappropriate, and unendurable. It became evident that the entire place must be raised, and at once, to the level of ...

— Adopting An Abandoned Farm • Kate Sanborn

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