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Rusticism

noun
1.
A rural idiom or expression.  Synonym: ruralism.





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"Rusticism" Quotes from Famous Books



... fancies, in such words a significance that escapes our obtuser sense, a sweetness, it may be, of early association, for he tells us somewhere that in his boyhood he was put to school in Geneva. In this way only can we account for his once slipping into the rusticism that ...
— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell


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