NOUN
- a rural idiom or expression
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a rural characteristic or trait
a place with the rurality of a turnip field
How To Use ruralism In A Sentence
- The Khmer Rouge insisted on ruralism, with an economy based only on crafts and traditional agriculture. Cambodia: Revisiting the Killing Fields
- In addition to being a proscribed ethnic group by the government, the Chinese were predominantly city-dwellers, making them vulnerable to the Khmer Rouge's revolutionary ruralism. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- The current trend toward urban living is accompanied by a new ruralism and new suburbs. Your Right Hand Thief
- His previous album, Conasauga, dwelt almost wholly in Appalachian ruralisms and pristine fingerpicking, and you can hear that ornate classicism in the well-mannered portions of ‘Warpaint’ and ‘The Nest.’
- His previous album, Conasauga, dwelt almost wholly in Appalachian ruralisms and pristine fingerpicking, and you can hear that ornate classicism in the well-mannered portions of ‘Warpaint’ and ‘The Nest.’
- Many locals tend to respond in the affirmative, perhaps in the spirit of romantic ruralism that so often possesses modern urban souls.
- They tap into an emerging farmland-preservation movement dubbed "new ruralism," a counterpart to the new urbanism philosophy that promotes dense, walkable neighborhoods. Selling History by the Square Foot
- If Edmonton can't support a jazz festival then it is a reflection of Edmonton's ruralism and redneck attitude, not the efforts of the Edmonton Jazz Festival!
- Here, for the first time, had Marcella been brought face to face with the agricultural world as it is -- no stage ruralism, but the bare fact in one of its most pitiful aspects. Marcella
- Critical questions about this unknown quantity are being beaten back for now with counter charges of sexism, ruralism, familyism and anything else the McCain camp can throw into the blame-the-media strategy. Peggy Drexler: Big Night for the Republican's New Alpha Girl. But What Now?