Homespun
adj, noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Fabric made from homespun yarn. Also, machine made fabrics (usually cottons) similar to homespun fabrics in that solids, plaids, or stripes are created by weaving dyed threads (rather than printing), so that both sides of the fabric look the same. countable, uncountable
"There are four men, heavily bearded and more than a little dirty, and two young women, all of them busy with shovels in or around an opened grave and all dressed identically in shirts and trousers of tattered homespun."
- 2 a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home wordnet
- 3 An unpolished, rustic person. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"What hempen home-ſpuns haue we ſwaggering here, / So neere the Cradle of the Faierie Queene?"
- 1 Spun in the home. not-comparable
- 2 Woven in the home. not-comparable
- 3 Made from homespun fabric. not-comparable, usually
"homespun country garbs"
- 4 Plain and homely; unsophisticated and unpretentious. broadly, not-comparable
"homespun wisdom"
- 1 made of cloth spun or woven in the home wordnet
- 2 characteristic of country life wordnet
- 3 of textiles; having a rough surface wordnet
Example
More examples"He became more and more excited; he rose from the sofa, walked up and down the floor with hurried steps and fought with his hands in the air, till the light flickered hither and thither, while the sweeping tail of his long grey home-spun coat described long circles every time he swung himself round and raised himself on his longer leg, for, like Tyrtaeus and Peter Solvold of our parish, he was afflicted with a limp."
Etymology
From home + spun.
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