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“Too much ‘David,’” she went on, dismissively, “too much rusticated stone, too much glazed terra-cotta, too many Madonnas with Bambinos.”

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2022

Two students were rusticated, or dismissed, by their colleges for climbing King's College Chapel in June 1937.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2019

Columns were piled on pilasters, rusticated plinths groaned under heaving cornices and every junction was elaborated with a twiddly moulding.

From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2017

When Ratna gets out next year, Durgesh wants her rusticated to the family’s ancestral village, in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2013

I guess this was the rusticated equivalent of coming out.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly