Rustic

Rustic can refer to:

  • rural
  • pastoral

In zoology:

  • Rustic moths, various noctuid moths of subfamilies Hadeninae and Noctuinae, including
    • The Rustic, (Hoplodrina blanda, Hadeninae)
  • The Rustic (Cupha erymanthis), a brush-footed butterfly
  • Rustic Sphinx (Manduca rustica), a hawkmoth

In geography:

  • Rustic, Toronto, a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In architecture:

  • Rustication (architecture)
  • National Park Service Rustic, an architecture style in the United States

In palaeography and calligraphy:

  • Rustic capitals, a formal Roman script

Famous quotes containing the word rustic:

    “It may be romantic to search for the salves of society’s ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.”
    —Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)

    “Kitsch ... is one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of “trashy,” sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the “cliché” in discourse.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)