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[ruh-stis-i-tee]

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noun, plural -ties.

the state or quality of being rustic.

rural character or life.

Origin:
1525–35; < Middle French rusticite < Latin rūstic(us) rustic + Middle French -ite -ity

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rustic (ˈrʌstɪk)

—*adj*
1.	of, characteristic of, or living in the country; rural
2.	having qualities ascribed to country life or people; simple; unsophisticated: rustic pleasures
3.	crude, awkward, or uncouth
4.	made of untrimmed branches: a rustic seat
5.	denoting or characteristic of a style of furniture popular in England in the 18th and 19th centuries, in which the legs and feet of chairs, tables, etc, were made to resemble roots, trunks, and branches of trees
6.	(of masonry) having a rusticated finish

—n
7.	a person who comes from or lives in the country
8.	an unsophisticated, simple, or clownish person from the country
9.	Also called: rusticwork brick or stone having a rough finish

[C16: from Old French rustique, from Latin rūsticus, from rūs the country]

'rustically

—*adv*

rusticity

—n

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"The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization."

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