Rustication

Rustication (literally "to or of the countryside") may refer to:

  • Rustication (architecture), a style of masonry giving stones a deliberately rough finish
  • Rustication (academia), temporary expulsion from a university (literally, to be sent to the countryside)
  • Rustication (UK military), 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 Movement, a government policy enacted during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
  • Rustication, a process in smoking pipe creation/refinishing, where the pipe's surface is given a texture or design by removing some of the material; often used to give the appearance of wood grain or to cover up surface flaws

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