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Webster 1913 Edition
Rustic
1.
Of or pertaining to the country; rural;
“Rustic lays.” as, the
. rustic
gods of antiquityMilton.
And many a holy text around she strews,
That teach the
That teach the
rustic
moralist to die. Gray.
She had a
rustic
, woodland air. Wordsworth.
2.
Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished;
“A rustic muse.” as,
. rustic
mannersSpenser.
3.
Coarse; plain; simple;
as, a
. rustic
entertainment; rustic
dress4.
Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.
Pope.
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.
Syn. – Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward; rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless; honest. See
Rural
. Rus′tic
,Noun.
1.
An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
Hence to your fields, you
rustics
! hence, away. Pope.
2.
A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
[Poetic]
Webster 1828 Edition
Rustic
RUST'IC
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rustic
rustic
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
rustic (comparative more rustic, superlative most rustic)
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- She had a rustic, woodland air.
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Unfinished or roughly finished.
- rustic manners
- Crude, rough.
- rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
- Simple; artless; unaffected.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
- Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
Derived terms
- rustic moth
- rustic work
Translations
country-styled
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unfinished, roughly finished
Quotations
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- late 1700s — Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
- The Princely revel may survey
Our rustic dance wi' scorn.
- The Princely revel may survey
- 1818 — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus Ch. I
- With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them, but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want when Providence afforded her such powerful protection.
- 1820 — Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
- To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
Noun
rustic (plural rustics)
- A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
- 1906 — Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, Ch IX
- The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.
- 1927-29 — Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
- Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
- 1906 — Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, Ch IX
Translations
person from a rural area
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