homespun
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7.6
- noun
- /ˈhoʊmˌspʌn/
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- The brown homespun looked exactly as it had, and she experienced a ridiculous thrill.
- wear homespun
Examples
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The generous Roman merchant comes to trade for their homespun.
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It's said to be of homespun, red in colour.
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Says homespun is coming into style in Rome.
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Most of them were country people in homespun.
Fiction book (1997) -
A group of men in rough homespun genuflected, arms outstretched, facing toward the camera.
Fiction book (1993) -
Indians who supported separation from Britain wore homespun to assert the value of traditional local products and, by extension, their rejection of foreign influences.
Academic text (1997) -
Stopping at a tavern, for example, Norton encounters a wedding party, "all well dressed in homespun," who invite him to join them.
Academic text (2016) -
Nineteenth-century America gave us the Age of Homespun, an ideological haven from the more complicated realities of the country's history.
Academic text (2002) -
Proper Quaker clothing of good homespun cotton, not of gray silk or taffeta as Mrs. Shippen wore.
Fiction book (1994) -
The villagers wore homespun clothes that they made themselves to keep warm during the cold winters.
Synonyms
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A strong cloth made from flax used for sheets and tablecloths
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9.9
A rough simple cloth that is reddish brown
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9.9
A strong pale yellow cotton cloth first made by hand in China
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2.9
A warm cotton cloth with a soft side used for clothes and sheets
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9.9
A soft cotton fabric with fine ribs used for underwear and night clothes
A strong cloth of cotton and linen used for clothes and to cover furniture
A thin, light fabric made from pineapple leaves and woven by hand in the Philippines
A thin stiff cotton cloth with an open weave that people use to clean printing plates and make dresses fuller
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Homespun comes from the two parts home and spun, which mean 'spun at home'. So a homespun cloth is a coarse fabric that was made by hand in people's homes.