rusticism

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My experiment in rusticism included a weekend in a fairly primitive yurt in the Adirondack Mountains and a stay in a treehouse at a well-appointed resort in southern Virginia.

From New York Times • May 17, 2013

Now and then a home rusticism is fresh and startling, but where nothing is gained in expression, it is out of tenor.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary

Now and then a home rusticism is fresh & startling, but where nothing is gained in expression, it is out of tenor.

From Charles Lamb by Jerrold, Walter

Now and then a home rusticism is fresh and startling; but when nothing is gained in expression, it is out of tenor.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Lamb, Charles

Now and then a home rusticism is fresh and startling, but where nothing is gained in expression it is out of tenor.

From Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by Cherry, J. L.