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Date: 1400-1500
Language: Old French
Origin: rustique, from Latin rusticus, from rus; RURAL

rustic

1 adjective
     
rus‧tic1
1 simple, old-fashioned, and not spoiled by modern developments, in a way that is typical of the countryside:
The village had a certain rustic charm.
2 [only before noun] roughly made from wood:
a rustic chair
—rusticity noun [uncountable]
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