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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

The earthy cooking, the rusticated backdrops, the antique tableware, the children, the dogs, the wine — it all proved a bit too perfect for some.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

Well, the cabbies' shelters are like this; from the outside they have the air of little cricket pavilions that have been - somewhat oxymoronically - urbanely rusticated.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2012

I guess this was the rusticated equivalent of coming out.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly