rusticating
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On this Maine island, vacation is for rusticating.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
A quiet, brooding sense of menace settles in right at the beginning, which finds Mr. Clooney, his silver hair complemented by a snowy beard, rusticating in the snowy Swedish countryside.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2010
Dona meets him while she is rusticating, away from it all, on her husband's Cornish estate.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1940, Prince Abdul Illah quashed one would-be Army coup by seizing the Iraqi telephone service and rusticating two uppity generals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Laura— may I say it?—while rusticating in Arden you haven't forgotten certain talents you used to possess.
From Nightfall by Anthony Pryde
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