— Ruritanian , adj. , n.
/roor'i tay"nee euh, roor"i tay'-/ , n.
1. a mythical, romantic kingdom conceived as the setting for a fairy tale, costume drama, comic operetta, or the like.
2. Facetious. any small, little-known country or region considered remote, backward, or exotic.
[ after the fictional Central European kingdom in the novel The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) by A. Hope ]