Examples of rustic

• Just as a character's costume could instandy identify him as, say, a shepherd, so the sound of an oboe could immediately evoke his rustic world.

• In light of this, the preceding tune emerges as a deliberately crude form of rustic style.

• Military trophies, rustic altars, funeral pyres, festively illuminated and decorated boats, and live horses adorn the stage.

• He was, in the words of one writer, ' ' a moralist, a rustic sage, but above all a missionary.

• In turn the rustic texture of the boards contrasts with the accuracy of the exposed stainless-steel fixings, all placed within a regular structural framework.

• Take for example the function of the rustics' comic self-importance.

• In the seventeenth century ' modes of urbanity ' spread into the countryside, displacing older rituals of hospitality even among rustic gentry.

• Turn away passenger on aircraft (a clumsy rustic with no family).