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

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 Jerrold, Walter

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 Lamb, Mary

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 Lowell, James Russell

Now and then a home rusticism is fresh and startling, but where nothing is gained in expression it is out of tenor.

From Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by Cherry, J. L.