country-bred
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of country-bred
First recorded in 1660–70
Example Sentences
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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
Isabel Arundell was a poor-relation of a great Roman Catholic family, convent-schooled, country-bred.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The Micaela who loves and loses him is country-bred Cindy Lou.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was nothing modish in poor little, country-bred, Doris's dress when this fine gentleman saw her coming behind all the rest, after he had almost given her up.
From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston
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