rustic
IPA: rˈʌstɪk
noun
- a rural person.
- an unsophisticated or uncultured person
- a noctuoid moth.
- any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
adjective
- Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
- Unfinished or roughly finished.
- Crude, rough.
- Simple; artless; unaffected.
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Examples of "rustic" in Sentences
- The rustic lodge was built.
- The experience is almost rustic.
- The bell in the rustic tower bears the date 1727.
- Inside the Chateau, the rustic architecture continues.
- A rustic building was the place where the Town Hall was.
- The book details the rustic lifestyle in a lively manner.
- The rooms are large, rustic and comfy with fabulous service.
- This is reflected in the choice of mansions in the rustic community.
- The basement and the corners of the building are rustically designed.
- She knows the streets of London and the rustic beauty of the countryside.
- Both towns are known for inexpensive, well-designed furniture in rustic styles.
- Most of the wineries are family-run affairs where tastings are conducted by appointment in rustic rooms by the owner or a family member.
- It was a great annoyance to the British officers and soldiers, to be thus hemmed in by what they termed a rustic rout with calico frocks and fowling-pieces.
- We don´t mind if lodging is "rustic" and had a lot of fun staying in rustic cabins run by indigenous folks when we visited Yaxchilán and Bonampak in the Lacandon Forest in Chiapas.
- Crushing throngs of people laid out on the beach under umbrellas or sat in rustic wooden chairs from porches overlooking the river while children swam and played on red swings, all provided by the Tribune.
- Ill-advised additions had been made, according to the fashion of the times: a den paneled in rustic pine, a long screened porch, some dormers scattered above the horizontal roof line like eyes peering down the drive.
- But our ancestors were necessarily limited in their pleasures, and to them Richmond was a God-send, especially to men like Selwyn, or Queensberry, or Walpole, who delighted in social intercourse, and liked to enjoy what they called rustic life with as much comfort as the age provided.
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