provincial
/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/ adjectif C2En français : provincial
- Of or pertaining to a province. · a provincial government· a provincial dialect
- Constituting a province.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
- Backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. · a provincial synod
Dans la bibliothèque
He was a simple-looking lawyer’s clerk, elevated to the extraordinary dignity of a provincial scrivener.
Here is a man with an English coat frayed at the elbow and trousers bagged at the knee with a year's wear, and yet by this document and by his own account he is a provincial American lately landed in London.
Then it was that the Madness of Manhattan, the frenzy of Fuss and Feathers, the Bacillus of Brag, the Provincial Plague of Pose seized upon Towers Chandler.
I have not traced these checks yet, but I have no doubt that they were banked under that name at some provincial town where Oldacre from time to time led a double existence.
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