country-bred
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of country-bred
First recorded in 1660–70
Example Sentences
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David is trying to live his own life and to root himself in "a country-bred wisdom" as protection against the "artificial stimulation" of the city.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The Micaela who loves and loses him is country-bred Cindy Lou.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bulk of the healthy open-air-looking young men and the pretty country-bred girls who footed it to the strains of a brisk and enlivening string band were not so particular as he.
From The Eldest Son by Archibald Marshall
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