Having the simple, plain, or rustic qualities of the countryside rather than the city; rural in style or manner.
From 'country' + '-fied' (made into). This adjective was formed in the 1600s to describe people or things that had adopted rural characteristics, sometimes with a slight tone of unsophistication.
Jane Austen used 'countrified' as a slight insult in her novels to describe ladies-in-waiting who lacked urban polish, showing how 18th-century society valued city manners over rural simplicity.
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