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Rusticity American Gothic Grant Wood’s painting of stern Iowan farming couple. [Am. Art: Osborne, 1215] awkward rural wench who jilts a countryman for a clown. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare As You Like It] epitome of the mountain man. [Am. Lit.: The Big Sky] fishing, hunting, and philosophizing in rural surroundings. [Br. Lit.: Izaac Walton The Compleat Angler] makers of colorful lithographs of scenes of nature and outdoor recreation. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 699]
forest and lake region; setting for lumberjack legends. [Am. Lit.: Hart, 607] farce set in rural America. [TV: Terrace, II, 205–206] any small-town Jewish settlement in East Europe. [Jewish Hist.: Wigoder, 552] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This glowing description, however, must be lowered or heightened in tone by the association of these characteristics with an undefinable simplicity of mien, a certain slight rusticity of effect. Cedric lived to see this union approximate towards its completion; for as the two nations mixed in society and formed intermarriages with each other, the Normans abated their scorn, and the Saxons were refined from their rusticity. That being granted he rested him on the floor, unfit through his rusticity for a better place. |
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