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Country-bred   /kˈəntri-brɛd/   Listen
Country-bred

adjective
1.
Rough and uncouth.






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"Country-bred" Quotes from Famous Books



... and country-bred, there was nothing about her of plodding peasant. All her life she had danced with the Bannisters and the Beauforts. Yet she had never been invited to the big balls. When the Merriweathers gave their ...
— The Trumpeter Swan • Temple Bailey

... gaps in the row of clogs and goloshes suggested that the old ladies were taking a morning stroll. They had not thought it proper to drive, save in a close carriage, since their brother's death; and on such a warm day of spring weather a close carriage was not inviting to country-bred people. ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture



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