late 1700s, Robert Burns, Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
The Princely revel may survey
Our rustic dance wi' scorn.

To this mingling of cultivated and rustic society may also be attributed the rural feeling that runs through British literature.

rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely

the manners not too polite nor too rustic

The cause of these stampedes was generally undiscoverable; but sometimes, when the birds stayed some time down on the water, the figure of a rustic would at length appear, walking behind a hedge, along a path bounding the little meadow.

The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.

1927-29, Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Stain of Indigo, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
Thus this ignorant, unsophisticated but resolute agriculturist captured me. So early in 1917, we left Calcutta for Champaran, looking just like fellow rustics.

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