Word of the Day: RURICOLIST


ETYMOLOGY
from Latin ruricola (a person who tills the land, husbandman, country dweller, rustic)
(from ruri-, combining form of rur-rus (country) + -cola) + -ist


EXAMPLE
“…His hood was half blue and half green, and, over his left ear, was set off with an artificial rose. His appearance did not bespeak the ruricolist, and Dick, who at once detected this, set him down for a burgess of London…”

From: The Life and Times of Dick Whittington
An Historical Romance.
By Richard Whittington, 1841

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