rusticate
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He plans to rusticate in Mexico, not talk any English for 90 days.
From Time Magazine Archive
In summer, the Niebuhrs rusticate at Heath, Mass., near the Vermont line.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Mitchell was court-martialed in 1925 for his obstreperous advocacy of air power, his friend & follower Hap Arnold was sent off to rusticate at Fort Riley.
From Time Magazine Archive
In other words, as far as the Soviet-dominated government in Prague is concerned, Dub?ek's main job in Ankara is to rusticate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Go on down and rusticate with your relatives for the summer, and fly the bats in your belfry at the old moss-backs, while I am getting this Cincinnati and Gulf Stations commission under way.
From The Tinder-Box by Maria Thompson Daviess
“Too much ‘David,’” she went on, dismissively, “too much rusticated stone, too much glazed terra-cotta, too many Madonnas with Bambinos.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2022
Two students were rusticated, or dismissed, by their colleges for climbing King's College Chapel in June 1937.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2019
Columns were piled on pilasters, rusticated plinths groaned under heaving cornices and every junction was elaborated with a twiddly moulding.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2017
Well, the cabbies' shelters are like this; from the outside they have the air of little cricket pavilions that have been - somewhat oxymoronically - urbanely rusticated.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2012
I guess this was the rusticated equivalent of coming out.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
On this Maine island, vacation is for rusticating.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
A quiet, brooding sense of menace settles in right at the beginning, which finds Mr. Clooney, his silver hair complemented by a snowy beard, rusticating in the snowy Swedish countryside.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2010
Old Jack Paar, supposedly rusticating there, is host-narrator.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1940, Prince Abdul Illah quashed one would-be Army coup by seizing the Iraqi telephone service and rusticating two uppity generals.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was returning from leave, and spent most of his time rusticating around the "Old Willard".
From On the Trail of Deserters A Phenomenal Capture by Captain Robert Goldthwaite Carter
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