country-bred
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of country-bred
First recorded in 1660–70
Example Sentences
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Proletarian labor, as a subject for art, was the invention of the 19th century; for that, the country-bred Millet was largely responsible.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in truth Sisi was country-bred, had to learn painfully how to be regal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Micaela who loves and loses him is country-bred Cindy Lou.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everyone knows Tolstoy's story of country-bred Catering's betrayal by swaggering Prince Dimitri, how she fell to the gloomy, filthy Russian depths, how Dimitri found her in a Petrograd prison, how she was redeemed.
From Time Magazine Archive
I don't suppose there ever was a country-bred boy who lived long enough to forget how, in his younger days, the Sabbath seemed, always, a day of stillness and quiet.
From Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus by Coup, W. C.
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