ruritanian

We used to curse the Greeks for sheltering the ruritanian King Zog, and the newspapers were always full of alleged British attacks on our shipping from Greek waters.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

At first it was the rich yacht owners who passed on supercilious information to their friends about the quaintest and most ruritanian places to eat, and then it was the rucksacked spiritual inheritors of the lugubrious Canadian poet's way of life.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

The original glockenspiel clock was hilariously ruritanian in its parade of animated Swiss stereotypes and farm animals and at least entertained the tourists for a few minutes 'respite from being touted overpriced restricted-view theatre seats in Leicester Square or regurgitating their MSG-laced Chinese meals from Gerrard Street. "

Londonist 2010

"The novel contains almost no element of imagination other than its original premise … it describes in elaborate detail the unending dynastic feuds of two warring families … The narrative of immense length and repetitiveness is fitted out with a map and appendices, interminable italicised excerpts from sacred and devotional texts, and a mixture of jaw-cracking pseudo-Arabic and ruritanian names, together designed to impress the unwary as

Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2009

"The novel contains almost no element of imagination other than its original premise … it describes in elaborate detail the unending dynastic feuds of two warring families … The narrative of immense length and repetitiveness is fitted out with a map and appendices, interminable italicised excerpts from sacred and devotional texts, and a mixture of jaw-cracking pseudo-Arabic and ruritanian names, together designed to impress the unwary as

The Guardian World News 2009