rusticating
noun
(in New Zealand) a wide type of weatherboarding used in older houses
rusticated
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a word derived from
rusticating.
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a word form of
rusticate.
rusticateverb (used without object)to go to the country.
Example Sentences
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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
The tables had mesquite stumps for legs, attached to slabs of wood covered with rusticated concrete.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2021
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
I guess this was the rusticated equivalent of coming out.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
