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rusticate

[ruhs-ti-kayt] / ˈrʌs tɪˌkeɪt /




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Franco, who has yet to commit himself unequivocally to restoration of the monarchy, sought to rusticate the prince and his prospective bride outside Madrid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Johnny Case solves his problem neatly by leaving his fiancee, Julia, to rusticate in the Seton mansion, eloping with her older sister, Linda, who shares his disdain for her family bankroll.

From Time Magazine Archive

Secretary of Commerce Lament will rusticate on his son's ranch at Larkspur, Col.

From Time Magazine Archive

He plans to rusticate in Mexico, not talk any English for 90 days.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Greek legend, Apollo lodges with the shepherds of Admetus; and Jove liked to rusticate among the poor Ethiopians.

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

Two students were rusticated, or dismissed, by their colleges for climbing King's College Chapel in June 1937.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2019

Daughter The story of a girl struggling with learning difficulties hardly seems like the meat for great rock’n’roll, but Vedder makes it sing on this rusticated country-rock glide from Vs.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2016

The couple rusticated themselves to Bennington, Vt., where he was a teacher and she — as far as the neighbors knew — was a housewife, raising four talkative children.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2015

Designed by Robert W. Gibson, it was built of modest rusticated limestone block and red tile, topped by a 160-foot copper belfry that still tolls every half-hour.

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2014

I guess this was the rusticated equivalent of coming out.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

On this Maine island, vacation is for rusticating.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021

A quiet, brooding sense of menace settles in right at the beginning, which finds Mr. Clooney, his silver hair complemented by a snowy beard, rusticating in the snowy Swedish countryside.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2010

As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members of His Majesty's Government ignored a Laborite M. P. who attempted the role of Cassandra.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dona meets him while she is rusticating, away from it all, on her husband's Cornish estate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The presidente told us, with delight, that the jefe politico of Ozuluama was there with his family, rusticating, and at once summoned him to meet us.

From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr


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