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homespun, a., n.|ˈhəʊmspʌn|
[home n. 15 i.]
A. adj.
1. Spun at home; of home manufacture; made of the material mentioned in B. 1.
1591Florio 2nd Fruites A iv, One being onely clad in home-spunn cloth. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle ii. 718 Thy syre..kept his wife in a course homespun gowne. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 451 The farmers..are mostly clothed in plain, decent, homespun cloth. 1842J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 304 In the form of iplik, or homespun thread.
2. fig. Of domestic origin or quality; simple, unsophisticated, unvarnished; plain, homely; unpolished, rude.
1600Dekker Fortunatus Wks. 1873 I. 130 His wooing is plaine home-spun stuffe. 1618J. Taylor (Water P.) Penniless Pilgr. Wks. (1883) 62 Yet this plain home-spun fellow keeps..thirty, forty, fifty servants. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. iv. 123 Sobriety is..void of show; substantial, home-spun, and hardy. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece iv. 79 The plainest homespun morality. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) II. ii. 40 Crabbe was one of those simple, homespun characters.
B. n.
1. Cloth made of yarn spun at home; hodden; also, a coarse and loosely-woven material made in imitation of home-made cloth.
1607Rowlands Guy, Earl Warw. 59 Homely Countery⁓gray, Such as the poor plain people term home-spun. a1667Wither in Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. Ser. ii. (1849) 306 Clad in home-spun gray. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 520 Most of the families..are clothed in strong, decent home⁓spun. 1858Longfellow M. Standish iii. 53 She, the Puritan girl..Making the humble house and the modest apparel of homespun Beautiful with her beauty. 1883Cassell's Fam. Mag. Oct. 697/1 Homespuns are still much worn.
b. Anything of plain, homely, or rude texture.
1845Athenæum 4 Jan. 17 The edifice is of uniform texture, instead of being..of superfine quality in one part, and arrant home-spun in another. 1887Hall Caine Deemster vii. 44 The young rogue, who spoke the home-spun to the life. 1889Pall Mall G. 21 Dec. 3/1 Nor is the style..comparable in any way with the classic homespun of Cellini.
2. transf. One who wears homespun; hence, a rustic, a clown.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. i. 79 What hempen home-spuns haue we swaggering here? 1604Fr. Bacon's Proph. in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 281 Sheepes Russet to home spunne.
3. Comb., as homespun-clad, homespun-hooded adjs.
1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. (1886) 4 Some of our most illustrious public men have come direct from the homespun-clad class. 1897Westm. Gaz. 27 Mar. 5/2 Peasants, dressed in coarse, woollen homespun-hooded garments. |