rusticism

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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 Lowell, James Russell

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 Lamb, Charles

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