Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.
approval You can use rustic to describe things or people that you approve of because they are simple or unsophisticated in a way that is typical of the countryside. the rustic charm of a country lifestyle. someone from the country, especially a farm worker
awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists"
having a cemented spodic horizon which has enough amorphous iron to turn redder on ignition, which underlies an albic horizon, and lacks a subhorizon of the spodic horizon which is 2 5 cm or more thick and which is continuously cemented by a combination of organic matter and aluminium, with or without iron ("thin iron pan") (in Podzols only)
used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"
(rusticano): the least intensified practice; coffee shrubs are planted in the existing forest with little alteration of native vegetation; also the least expensive practice, typically used by small family-owned farms that produce a modest crop of coffee This is an increasingly rare practice and usually does involve some thinning of the canopy
Describes wines made by old-fashioned methods or tasting like wines made in an earlier era Can be a positive quality in distinctive wines that require ageing Can also be a negative quality when used to describe a young, earthy wine that should be fresh and fruity
lend a rustic character to; "rusticate the house in the country" as of stone, to give it a rustic look send to the country; "He was rusticated for his bad bahavior" live in the country and lead a rustic life