rustic
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rustic/ˈrʌstɪk/
▶adjective
- 1 of or characteristic of life in the country.
■ having a simplicity and charm that is considered typical of the countryside.
- 2 made of rough branches or timber.
- 3 (of masonry) having a rough-hewn or roughened surface or sunken joints.
- 4 denoting freely formed lettering.
- 1 often derogatory an unsophisticated country person.
- 2 a small brownish European moth. [Several genera and species in the family
Noctuidae .]
– derivatives
rustically adverb,
rusticity noun.
rustically adverb,
rusticity noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘rural’): from L. rusticus, from rus ‘the country’.
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