All 3 Uses
rustic
in
Anne Of Green Gables
(Edited)
- Here Diana met her, and the two little girls went on up the lane under the leafy arch of maples ... until they came to a rustic bridge.
p. 102.4 *rustic = characteristic of rural life; simple without refined touches
- The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely around and surveyed Anne through her eyeglasses until Anne, acutely sensitive of being so scrutinized, felt that she must scream aloud; and the white-lace girl kept talking audibly to her next neighbor about the "country bumpkins" and "rustic belles" in the audience,
p. 263.4
- Perhaps, like the white-lace girl, they anticipated amusement from her "rustic" efforts.
p. 264.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(rustic) characteristic of rural life; simple without refined touches
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)