Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹʌstɪk/
rustic
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- She had a rustic, woodland air.
- 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.
- Unfinished or roughly finished.
- rustic manners
- Crude, rough.
- rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
- Simple; artless; unaffected.
- Spanish: rústico
rustic (plural rustics)
- A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
- 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
- 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 little meadow.
- 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.
- 1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, p. 226
- A noctuoid moth.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
- Italian: agreste, villico, campagnolo, paesano
- Russian: селянин
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