The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rustic \Rus"tic\, a. [L. rusticus, fr. rus, ruris, the country: cf. F. rustique. See Rural.]
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Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. ``Rustic lays.''
--Milton.And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
--Gray.She had a rustic, woodland air.
--Wordsworth. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. ``A rustic muse.''
--Spenser.Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
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Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. --Pope. Rustic moth (Zo["o]l.), any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larv[ae] are called cutworms. See Cutworm. Rustic work.
(Arch.) Cut stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are very conspicuous.
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(Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged.
Syn: Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward; rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless; honest. See Rural.
Usage examples of "rustic work".
But the rustic work-camp across the lake had become a brutal fortress of iron and masonry on a naked hilltop, the New York State Maximum Security Adult Correctional Institution at Athena, keeping 5,000 of the state’.
Among the thick trees, roofs covered with branches, were rows of long portable barracks with doors decorated with rustic work.
In the rear was a rustic work table with an inkwell, penknife, turkey quills for writing, sand to dry the ink, and a withered carnation in a vase.
Abdee was looking now at the crude wagons, the rustic work carts which had carried or led the Negro slaves along the palm-lined roads from the plantations to Basseterre.