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characteristic of rural life; simple without refined touches

"Maycomb County Ad Astra Per Aspera." ... "That means," said Mrs. Merriweather, translating for the rustic elements, "from the mud to the stars."
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

rustic = characteristic of a simple life without refined touches (such as knowing Latin)

Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, which sits in the mountains of rural, redneck California, is rustic by anyone's standards.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
Their guns—some were rifles, other pistols—looked .... archaic, rustic.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
—there stands a rustic dwelling which you can make me prouder of, than all the hopes I have renounced, measured a thousandfold.
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist
He reminisced about the stimulating conversations that took place in rustic pubs over warm beer.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
Like many hip restaurants, it feels as if someone spent a lot of time and money to make it look rustic and down-trodden.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
But my name, Pan ... originally it meant rustic.
Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
They were quintessentially Southern, and she remembered seeing many of these rustic scenes on her journey through North Carolina.
Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
There was a seat for Mr. Peggotty too, but he preferred to stand, leaning his hand on the small rustic table.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
"Laurie, when are you going to your grandfather?" she asked presently, as she settled herself on a rustic seat.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
He was a benign figure, a little rustic, and his hair was white.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
' 'No,' said Frodo, feeling strangely rustic and untutored.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
The gate-keeper let him in through the same stiff crevice as before, and he passed through the court and over the little rustic bridge on the moat.
Henry James -- The American
They could all hear the clock ticking in the corner, the one my mother had called our "rustic colonial clock."
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
Even today, tickets and ticket-clipping are dark oppression to Indian rustics.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
] [Enter Twelve Rustics, habited like Satyrs.
William Shakespeare -- The Winter's Tale
In his recruit's uniform he leans on a round rustic table with legs made of birch branches.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front
Rustic manners, forest manners, in a setting not of the forest.
V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
The men I saw were not rustic heroes, just criminals, stealing from nature.
Rick Bragg -- All Over but the Shoutin'
Sleep I sing—I, who am unmelodious and hear no music save rustic music when a dog barks, a bell tinkles, or wheels crunch upon the gravel.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves

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