rusticism
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My experiment in rusticism included a weekend in a fairly primitive yurt in the Adirondack Mountains and a stay in a treehouse at a well-appointed resort in southern Virginia.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2013
In this way only can we account for his once slipping into the rusticism that "remembers of" a thing.
From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by James Russell Lowell
Now and then a home rusticism is fresh and startling; but when nothing is gained in expression, it is out of tenor.
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb
Now and then a home rusticism is fresh & startling, but where nothing is gained in expression, it is out of tenor.
From Charles Lamb by Walter Jerrold
Now and then a home rusticism is fresh and startling, but where nothing is gained in expression, it is out of tenor.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
