Rusticating
verb (used without object), rusticated, rusticating.
1.
to go to the country.
2.
to stay or sojourn in the country.
verb (used with object), rusticated, rusticating.
3.
to send to or domicile in the country.
4.
to make rustic, as persons or manners.
5.
to finish (a wall surface) so as to produce or suggest rustication.
6.
British. to suspend (a student) from a university as punishment.
noun
1.
(in New Zealand) a wide type of weatherboarding used in older houses
verb
1.
to banish or retire to the country
2.
to make or become rustic in style, behaviour, etc
3.
(transitive) (architect) to finish (an exterior wall) with large blocks of masonry that are separated by deep joints and decorated with a bold, usually textured, design
4.
(transitive) (Brit) to send down from university for a specified time as a punishment
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noun, Masonry. 1. a joint between stones recessed from the faces between sunken drafts or bevels.
- Rusticness
adjective 1. of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural. 2. simple, artless, or unsophisticated. 3. uncouth, rude, or boorish. 4. made of roughly dressed limbs or roots of trees, as garden seats. 5. (of stonework) having the surfaces rough or irregular and the joints sunken or beveled. […]