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Definition of Homespun
1. Adjective. Of textiles; having a rough surface. "A sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns"
Similar to: Rough, Unsmooth
Derivative terms: Nubble, Nub, Nubbiness, Tweed, Tweediness
2. Noun. A rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home.
3. Adjective. Characteristic of country life. "The air of homespun country boys"
4. Adjective. Made of cloth spun or woven in the home. "Homespun garments"
Definition of Homespun
1. a. Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.
2. n. Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.
Definition of Homespun
1. Adjective. (context: of yarn) Spun in the home. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: of fabric) Woven in the home. ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of clothing etc) Made from homespun fabric. ¹
4. Adjective. (by extension) Plain and homely; unsophisticated and unpretentious. ¹
5. Noun. Fabric made from homespun yarn. ¹
6. Noun. (obsolete) An unpolished, rustic person. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homespun
1. a loosely woven fabric [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homespun
Literary usage of Homespun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Household Manufactures in the United States, 1640-1860: A Study in by Rolla Milton Tryon (1917)
"3 Such a list is by no means exhaustive, but long enough to show the great
variation in the simple articles of clothing made from the homespun cloth. ..."
2. History of Manufactures in the United States by Victor Selden Clark (1916)
"At the close of the colonial period, it will be recalled, homespun ... homespun
industry has been defined as manufacturing in the family for home use, ..."
3. Confederate Scrap-book: Copied from a Scrap-book Kept by a Young Girl During by Lizzie Cary Daniel (1893)
"For the sunny South so dear; Three cheers for the homespun dress The Southern
ladies wear! The homespun dress is plain, I know, My hat's palmetto, too; ..."
4. A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War by Parthenia Antoinette Hague (1888)
"Now and then a homespun wedding would occur, in which the bride and all who were
bidden would be in homespun out and out. We were invited to one such ..."
5. The Statutes at Large of South Carolina by South Carolina, Thomas Cooper, David James McCord (1839)
"WHEREAS, it has been represented by the president and directors of the South
Carolina homespun Company, that permission to raise, by one or more lotteries, ..."
6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1867)
"homespun.!—This is a work of real genius, a prose poem, written by a man with a
... 1867. f homespun ; or, Five and Twenty Years Ago. By THOMAS LACKLAND. ..."
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