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ˈcountry-ˌpeople
a. Men and women of the country, rustics.
†b. (with possessive) One's own countrymen and countrywomen, compatriots: cf. country-folk.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 6 b, Countrey people were alwayes preferred before the people of the Citie. 1690Locke Hum. Und. i. iv. §16 Talk but with Country-People. 1794Miss Gunning Packet III. 193 Ordered to turn them against his own country people. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Goethe Wks. (Bohn) I. 384 Practising on the prejudices and facility of country-people. |