Unprovincial

We chose Monte Carlo partly because it was the nearest place, and partly because it has some of the qualities -- incurious, tolerant, unprovincial -- of a capital city. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

Newcastle so noble and unprovincial an appearance; but the fine streets he had constructed -- finer than any others to be found in England at that period -- were still untenanted, and it was melancholy in walking along ❋ Unknown (1887)

_ This is of course just as pure and unprovincial a word as ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Richard Granger was just completing that great reconstruction of the centre of the town which gave Newcastle so noble and unprovincial an appearance; but the fine streets he had constructed ” finer than any others to be found in England at that period ” were still untenanted, and it was melancholy in walking along Clayton Street to see nine houses out of ten mere empty shells without doors or windows. ❋ Reid, Stuart J (1905)