Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to uplands; pertaining to or situated in country districts: as, uplandish towns.
- Hence, rustic; rude; boorish; countrified; uncultured; unrefined.
- Upland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.
- adjective obsolete Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized.
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- adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to
uplands ; pertaining to or situated incountry districts . - adjective obsolete
rustic ,rude ,boorish ;countrified ,unsophisticated , oruncivilized . - adjective obsolete
Upland . - adjective
Wild orsavage ;mountainous , or dwelling in the mountains.
Etymologies
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Examples
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One is the multitude of chimneys lately erected, whereas in their young days there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm (the religious houses and manor places of their lords always excepted, and peradventure some great personages), but each one made his fire against a reredos in the hall, where he dined and dressed his meat.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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Neither are our crows and choughs cherished of purpose to catch up the worms that breed in our soils (as Polydor supposeth), sith there are no uplandish towns but have (or should have) nets of their own in store to catch them withal.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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In old times peradventure we had none indeed; but in my days there is such plenty of them in manner everywhere that in some uplandish towns there are one hundred or two hundred hives of them, although the said hives are not so huge as those of the east country, but far less, and not able to contain above one bushel of corn or five pecks at the most.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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One is the multitude of chimneys lately erected, whereas in their young days there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm (the religious houses and manor places of their lords always excepted, and peradventure some great personages), but each one made his fire against a reredos in the hall, where he dined and dressed his meat.
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In old times peradventure we had none indeed; but in my days there is such plenty of them in manner everywhere that in some uplandish towns there are one hundred or two hundred hives of them, although the said hives are not so huge as those of the east country, but far less, and not able to contain above one bushel of corn or five pecks at the most.
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Neither are our crows and choughs cherished of purpose to catch up the worms that breed in our soils (as Polydor supposeth), sith there are no uplandish towns but have (or should have) nets of their own in store to cath them withal.
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No, nor those same handicraftsmen of your in cities, nor yet the rude and uplandish ploughmen of the country, are not supposed to be greatly afraid of your gentlemens idle serving-men, unless it be such as be not of body or stature correspondent to their strength and courage, or else whose bold stomachs be discouraged through poverty.
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And the villein or uplandish man had great despite thereof, and said that he had his heart firm and stable in all his prayers.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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O frying-pan of my head! uplandish, now, cham worse than ever was.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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She shall never take counsel of an uplandish physician.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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