rustic

CEFRB2

/ˈɹʌstɪk/

adjective

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rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
rustic manners
late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves The Princely revel may survey Our rustic dance wi' scorn.

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She had a rustic, woodland air.
1800, William Wordsworth, We are Seven
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.
1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC
To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.
1820, Washington Irving, Rural Life in England in The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
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 clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

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From Latin rūsticus. Doublet of roister.