Rustication
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Things commonly known as rustication include:
- Rustication, a process in smoking pipe creation / refinishing where the surface of the pipe is given a texture or design by removing some of the material, often used to give a pipe the appearance of wood grain or to cover up some surface flaw
- Rustication (architecture)Rustication (architecture)thumb|upright|Two different styles of rustication in the [[Palazzo Medici-Riccardi]] in [[Florence]].In classical architecture rustication is an architectural feature that contrasts in texture with the smoothly finished, squared block masonry surfaces called ashlar...
, a texture produced in ashlarAshlarAshlar is prepared stone work of any type of stone. Masonry using such stones laid in parallel courses is known as ashlar masonry, whereas masonry using irregularly shaped stones is known as rubble masonry. Ashlar blocks are rectangular cuboid blocks that are masonry sculpted to have square edges...
masonry with deep cut 'V' or square joints to contrast with smooth masonry (see also: National Park Service RusticNational Park Service RusticNational Park Service rustic, also colloquially known as Parkitecture, is a style of architecture that arose in the United States National Park System to create buildings that harmonized with their natural environment. Since its founding, the National Park Service consistently has sought to provide...
, an architecture style in the United States) - Rustication (academia)Rustication (academia)Rustication is a term used at Oxbridge to mean being sent down or expelled temporarily. The term derives from the Latin word rus, countryside, to indicate that a student has been sent back to their family in the country, or from medieval Latin rustici, meaning "heathens or barbarians"...
, temporary expulsion from a university. Literally, to be sent to the countryside - Rustication (UK military)Rustication (UK military)Rustication is a term used in the British military to describe the process of posting a person or relocating a unit from London to elsewhere in the country....
, the process of posting a person or relocating a unit from London (or a command HQ) to elsewhere in the country - Rustication, also known as the Down to the Countryside MovementDown to the Countryside MovementThe Down to the Countryside Movement was a policy instituted in the People's Republic of China in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a result of the anti-bourgeois thinking prevalent during the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong declared certain privileged urban youth would be sent to mountainous...
, a government policy enacted during the Chinese Cultural RevolutionCultural RevolutionThe Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution , was a socio-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976...