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rustic work

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rus⋅ti⋅ca⋅tion

[ruhs-ti-key-shuhn]
–noun
1. Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
2. the act of a person or thing that rusticates.

Origin:
1615–25; < L rūsticātiōn- (s. of rūsticātiō). See rusticate, -ion
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rustication 
1623, from L. rusticationem (nom. rusticatio) "act or fact of living in the country," from rusticatus, pp. of rusticari "live or stay in the country," from rusticus (see rustic).
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