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Rusticity

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Rusticity
American Gothic
Grant Wood’s painting of stern Iowan farming couple. [Am. Art: Osborne, 1215]
Audrey
awkward rural wench who jilts a countryman for a clown. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare As You Like It]
Caudill, Boone
epitome of the mountain man. [Am. Lit.: The Big Sky]
Compleat Angler, The
fishing, hunting, and philosophizing in rural surroundings. [Br. Lit.: Izaac Walton The Compleat Angler]
Currier and Ives
makers of colorful lithographs of scenes of nature and outdoor recreation. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 699]
North Woods
forest and lake region; setting for lumberjack legends. [Am. Lit.: Hart, 607]
Petticoat Junction
farce set in rural America. [TV: Terrace, II, 205–206]
shtetl
any small-town Jewish settlement in East Europe. [Jewish Hist.: Wigoder, 552]

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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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