(a.) Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
(a.) Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.
(n.) An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
(n.) A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Camp out, rustic-style, at the Observatorio Astronómico de la Tatacoa, 4km east of Villavieja.
(2) The rustic rooms have clay tiles and wooden furniture, and the walls are brightened up with local fabrics.
(3) Yet for all the colourful cushions, plants, rustic ivy-lined facade and local artworks, it’s the nouveau prices that most appeal.
(4) With the music, as in this summer’s Roman season: the composer Claire van Kampen , licensed by Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole, worked around the idea that the Romans imported their festive music, and its instruments, from North Africa, and got hold of Moroccan and rustic Spanish drums and buzz-booming shawms .
(5) and steaming up Norris's glasses with plans to turn the Rovers into a rustic-inspired gastropub with cross-generational plate-appeal ("Cumberland sausage is all the rage in Clitheroe …").
(6) There is a bucolic tendency running deep in the national character, expressing itself in a love of rustic poets and painters, and it is this part of us that has turned to fury at the coalition government and its prosaically named Draft National Planning Policy Framework.
(7) But when we get there the restaurant, with its rustic dacha -style Russian decor, leaves us both feeling slightly spooked.
(8) For something typical of the rustic northern countryside, try cabrito asado , a slow-roasted young goat cooked in a wood-burning oven.
(9) Maní is more rustic and informal than DOM – simple furniture, whitewashed walls and a ceiling of dried branches laid over rafters – but the food is no less adventurous.
(10) Anyone looking for simple, rustic, affordable experiences in priceless locations will find they’re in luck.
(11) Hidden gems and locals’ tips Mountain cabins In every highland region in Spain there will be a selection of rustic mountain cabins: refugios de montaña .
(12) This Anglo-Brazilian affair offers the best of both worlds: four rustic bungalows hidden away in rainforest, near a handful of easily accessed beaches.
(13) Cameron’s rustic ruin David Cameron has acquired a faux-rustic shepherd’s hut , in which he is hoping to write.
(14) Outside Kramatorsk's aerodrome, meanwhile, at the end of a rustic rutted alley lined with sycamores and apricots, protesters had set up a new camp.
(15) Inspired by the traditional architecture of Polish summer houses, or datchas , the owners have kitted out the apartments with real flair: rustic wooden furniture, sheepskin throws, woodburning stoves, luxury bedlinen and bathrooms.
(16) As well as rows of semi-automatic weapons of all colours and sizes there are tables with a range of handguns and accessories: Eagle grips in ultra pearl black and ivory polymer, Hornady bullets ("accurate, deadly, dependable") and general appeals to the rustic, manly and patriotic.
(17) The music marked the return of the accordion to French politics, not seen since the faux-rustic former president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing played it in the 1970s – an important message about Hollande's rural, Mr Normal image.
(18) Hernández re-creates not only their rustic speech, but also the natural prosody peculiar to the peasant.
(19) Winning tip: Casa Guedes, Porto Casa Guedes , in the old centre of Porto (130 Praças Poveiros) serves juicy slabs of roast pork in rustic brown rolls, stuck together with oozing sheep’s cheese.
(20) The fresh, contemporary decor – all cool whites and soft greys – makes a refreshing change from the heavy, rustic look typically found in French gîtes.
Woodland
Definition:
(n.) Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.
(a.) Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; sylvan.
Example Sentences:
(1) 100 BC to AD 250) sites, suggesting a Middle to Late Woodland change in population structure that lowered levels of morphological variation.
(2) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(3) In the woodlands between Moravia, Lower Austria and Bohemia, mentioned by Ptolemaios under the Celtic name "Gabreta" (wild goats' wood, cf.
(4) The 12 additional arthropod species recorded from the woodland mice consisted of 1 nidicolous beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus; 1 bot, Cuterebra fontinella; 3 fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes, Orchopeas leucopus and Peromyscopsylla scotti; 1 tick, Dermacentor variabilis; 2 mesostigmatid mites, Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Ornithonyssus bacoti; 3 chiggers, Comatacarus americanus, Euschoengastia peromysci, and Leptotrombidium peromysci; and 1 undescribed pygmephorid mite of the genus Pygmephorus.
(5) Seven months later the upper half of his torso was found buried in woodland in West Sussex.
(6) In an area where California encephalitis is endemic, 10 of 19 small woodland animals (53%), which are the natural hosts of A. triseriatus, had hemagglutination-inhibiting and neutralizing antibodies to La Crosse virus.
(7) "We've got to be tough and robust in saying to people you are not in a downtrodden village or woodland, because many of them don't even live in areas where there are toilets or refuse collection facilities," he said.
(8) They will still be an important part of British woodlands, but we will be favouring the broadleaved trees in many areas," said Peter Brett, operations manager for the Forestry Commission in Dorset.
(9) He said: "Britain is not producing graduates with the expertise needed to identify and control plant diseases in our farms and woodlands."
(10) A handsome pair of strippedback brick apartment buildings will frame a forthcoming bridge across the river, leading to a woodland park beyond.
(11) • One mile from the A646 between Halifax and Hebden Bridge mrsfifties Puzzlewood, Gloucestershire Photograph: Alamy One of the most magical woodland walks I have come across.
(12) Stewart Snape, of its plant health service, said: "We know there could be OPM [oak processionary moth] in the woodland because we found a nest in it last year.
(13) The vast majority of the public oppose the government's plan to sell off all or part of the publicly owned forests and woodland in England.
(14) At the Woodland Pytchley Hunt, an experienced nanny will be on hand to accompany small children today, and at the Surrey Union a prize of £20 was offered for the "best turned out under 16 year old".
(15) The panel has been asked to look at all areas of forestry in England, including increasing woodland cover, public access, protection of wildlife, the Forestry Commission and the public forest estate.
(16) Sue Holden, chief executive at the Woodland Trust, welcomed the report and Paterson's promise on the register, but said more funding was needed if plant health was to reach parity with animal health.
(17) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
(18) The goddess Diana and her nymphs are bathing in a woodland pool when the hunter Actaeon chances by.
(19) When you come to a crossroads with the main drive ahead of you, head straight for a short distance and then take the marked path through the woodland on the right.
(20) The original version incorrectly described a Woodland Trust wood in Suffolk as new.