| \RUHS-ti-keyt\ | verb
1. to go to the country.
2. to stay or sojourn in the country. | | Quotes | He is an honorable idler who loafs, who likes to rusticate, who cultivates the grisette, who pays his court to beauty…
-- Victor Hugo, translated by Charles E. Wilbour, Les Misérables, 1862 | | Origin | | Rusticate is derived from the Latin verb rusticārī meaning "to live in the country." It entered English in the mid-1600s. | |
