rustic

• rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
• She had a rustic, woodland air. - 1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven:
• late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves The Princely revel may survey Our rustic dance wi' scorn.

• rustic manners

• the manners not too polite nor too rustic - 1704, Alexander Pope, A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry:
• 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...

• The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding...
• 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. - 1905–1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter IX,...

• Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics. - 1927–1929, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, “The Stain of...

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