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rustic
     1. adj. Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
     2. adj. Unfinished or roughly finished.
           rustic manners
     3. adj. Crude, rough.
           rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
     4. adj. Simple; artless; unaffected.
     5. n. A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
pastoral
     1. adj. Of or pertaining to shepherds or herders
     2. adj. Relating to rural life and scenes
           We were living a pastoral life.
           * He wanders west as far as Memphis, a solitary migrant upon that flat and pastoral landscape. - 1985 McCarthy, Blood Meridian, chapter
           * ... these pastoral farms,/Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke / Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! - 1798 Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, lines 16-18.
     3. adj. Relating to the care of souls, to the pastor of a church or to any local religious leader charged with the service of individual parishioners, i.e. a priest or rabbi.
           pastoral duties; a pastoral letter
     4. n. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyll; a bucolic.
     5. n. (music) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.
     6. n. (religion, Christianity) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese.
     7. n. (religion, Christianity) A letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.
country
     1. n. (chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
     2. n. A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, speci
     3. n. The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.
     4. n. (usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
     5. n. (ellipsis of country music)
     6. n. (mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
     7. n. (vulgar,) The female genitalia, especially the vagina.
     8. adj. From or in the countryside or connected with it.
     9. adj. Of or connected to country music.
styled
     1. adj. Set in place, arranged.
           His styled hair was not as attractive as he thought.
     2. v. simple past tense and past participle of style
     style
          1. n. A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
          2. n. Flair; grace; fashionable skill.
                As a dancer, he has a lot of style.
          3. n. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
          4. n. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
          5. n. A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
                the style of Majesty
          6. n. (nonstandard) A stylus.
          7. n. (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
          8. n. A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
          9. n. A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
          10. n. A long, slender, bristle-like process.
                the anal styles of insects
          11. n. The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
          12. n. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
                applying styles to text in a wordprocessor
                Cascading Style Sheets
          13. v. To create or give a style, fashion or image to.
          14. v. To call or give a name or title to.
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