country-bred
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of country-bred
First recorded in 1660–70
Example Sentences
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Isabel Arundell was a poor-relation of a great Roman Catholic family, convent-schooled, country-bred.
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
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
Annette was not country-bred, and she had not that vague confidence in her mother earth which those who have played on her surface from childhood never lose in later life.
From Notwithstanding by Mary Cholmondeley
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