What does ruricolist mean?
Ruricolist means (rare, obsolete) A country dweller..
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/ɹuːˈɹɪkəlɪst/ · noun
(rare, obsolete) A country dweller..
The House in Stone Row, lately possessed by Capt. Siree.
1884, Arthur F. Leach, "Local Government", in National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain), Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, John W. Parker (1885), page 110, But the agricultural laborer and the unagricultural ruricolist can no longer be ignored.
His appearance did not bespeak the ruricolist, and Dick, who at once detected this, set him down for a London burgess.
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Ruricolist means (rare, obsolete) A country dweller..
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The House in Stone Row, lately possessed by Capt. Siree.
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