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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pro·vin·cial·ism /-ʃəˌlɪzəm/
 鄉下習氣,方言,地方風格,土腔

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pro·vin·cial·ism n.  A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 provincialism
      n 1: a lack of sophistication
      2: a partiality for some particular place [syn: sectionalism,
          localism]