[
UK
/ɹˈʌstɪk/
]
[ US /ˈɹəstɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈɹəstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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awkwardly simple and provincial
bumpkinly country boys
rustic farmers
the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists
a hick town -
characteristic of rural life
countrified clothes
rustic awkwardness -
characteristic of the fields or country
agrestic simplicity
rustic stone walls
NOUN
- an unsophisticated country person
How To Use rustic In A Sentence
- Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
- MASANGO PETROS M NOTTINGHAM RD FARM 20061016 confessed by outline shoot Lucky Mlangeni o.b.o. rustic MASSETT ANDRE M 2OO80628 ARTIST CULLINAN SMALLHOLDING Archive 2009-12-01
- Brick with blurred colors or flecks of color in earthy tones of red, brown, black and buff appear completely at home in a rustic setting.
- Northern migratory species winter in the savanna, such as spotted sandpiper Actitis macularia, barn swallow Hirundo rustica and blackpoll warbler Dendroica striata. Canaima National Park, Venezuela
- Simple, rustic meals, focusing more on quality ingredients, such as first-rate olive oil.
- Not for them your rustic kitchens and winsome acoustic soundtracks. Times, Sunday Times
- At the bottom were the Théâtre de la Gaieté for pantomimes and harlequinades, the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre for melodramas, and the Théâtre des Variétés for ‘little plays of the bawdy, vulgar or rustic genres'.
- It is probable, however, that M. Thoinan, who makes this statement, has not considered the possibility of the word _musette_ applying in this case to the small rustic hautbois or _dessus de bombarde_, also written _muse_, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
- The rebeck, to whose loud and harsh strains the medieval rustic had danced, [Footnote: The rebeck probably had been borrowed from the Mohammedans.] by the addition of a fourth string and A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
- The fireplace really suited the rustic cabin setting.