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Definition of homespun in English: homespunadjective ˈhəʊmspʌnˈhoʊmˌspən 1Simple and unsophisticated. Example sentencesExamples - There's something homespun, simple, and heroic about him.
- The professionalism of the recent past, the thing that made the late '90s art world seem corporate and unsafe, is morphing into something less predictable, more homespun.
- Wigan's improvement since losing their first two matches has been both remarkable and romantic - a heart-warming tale of homespun success in these increasingly mercenary times.
- Many of them are not businesses on the traditional model at all, but homespun affairs staffed by teenagers and run out of bedrooms and even pubs.
- Already famous as the inventor of the lightning conductor, his homespun philosophizing and simple style charmed the world of the Court and the intellectual salons alike.
- ‘Do not trust homespun remedies,’ she added as a warning.
- The sessions are homespun affairs, filled with truisms and real-life examples that anyone can relate to.
- There could even be a variety of homespun cottage industries that might sprout up in conjunction with the city, and could thrive and flourish as viable and even vital parts of it.
- Despite the homespun image it cultivates in its ads, it operates with an arrogance and avarice that would make the multinationals blush and John D. Rockefeller envious.
- Inspired by primitivism and American folk art, he painted idealized images of homespun America.
- When Gen. Franks utters them, the words spin off his lips with a warm homespun flavor.
- New employees are given a little book that combines Woodroffe's story with his homespun philosophy of success.
- But she said he would benefit most from a piece of simple homespun advice.
- His patient rise from humble origins to eminence, his simple tastes and homespun manner, inspired general affection.
- So what has all this homespun philosophy got to do with the crisis in public liability insurance?
- Their plain virtues and homespun beliefs are the bedrock of decency and integrity in our nation and in the world.
- She is conscious that her simple, homespun style left her open to misinterpretation.
- But what energises Bloom's deceptively simple book is not the homespun wisdom, but the extraordinary energy which he invests in his writing.
- Davenport's purposefully low-tech sculptures maintain a good balance of homespun craftsmanship and conceptual artistry.
- This is not some homespun philosophy to make us all feel better.
Synonyms unsophisticated, unpolished, unrefined, plain, simple, rustic, folksy, artless, modest, natural coarse, rough, rude, crude, rudimentary 2(of cloth or yarn) made or spun at home. Example sentencesExamples - His collarless shirt, though of simple homespun muslin, was very comfortable, and half-unlaced at the moment.
- It almost seemed to be like the homespun cloth her shoulder sash was made from.
- ‘Chocolate would be fine,’ she said, taking a seat at the table nearest the counter and hanging her gray wool cloak on a peg on the wall, revealing that she was wearing a light blue homespun dress.
- Good homespun clothes… these should disguise you well enough.
- Tweed is a rough textured wool, originally homespun and slightly felted.
- Traditionally, they wear tunics and sarongs of homespun cotton, dyed red, blue, and black.
- Both male and female folk costumes made of homespun cloth and sheepskin were multi-colored and featured intricate embroidery.
- Doll makers dressed their creations in homespun materials or in clothing found in mountain stores.
- His mother had spun and woven flax and wool; his father had operated a wool-carding mill and a shop for pressing and dyeing homespun cloth.
- In the past, clothing was most often rough homespun cloth made from their own cotton, but today manufactured fabric or store-bought clothes are increasingly common.
- She looked no more than five and a half feet tall, and she wore a simple, pale red dress of homespun cotton.
- The men wear baggy trousers, usually made of indigo-dyed homespun fabric.
- The early immigrants were usually clothed in homespun cloth and caps.
- Its origin can be traced to the Indus Valley civilisation when the people used homespun cotton for weaving.
- Women dressed up in fancy homespun cotton dresses and men wore their jeans, cowboy belts, silk, striped shirts.
- ‘Oh, I was selling some of my homespun yarn to the tailor,’ Emily replied.
- They wear a uniform - blouse and trousers - of a bright homespun material, without any facings, but with brass buttons and collar ornaments.
- Only on isolated frontiers might homespun fabrics still be found; only among urban elites did imported textiles have a substantial market.
- The fabric is all pretty thin 100% cotton homespun stuff so the first thing that immediately leaps to mind is a summer dress for Amelia.
- No longer confined to the realm of the patriot, this homespun yarn has now entered the territory of international and domestic fashion.
- 2.1 Denoting a coarse handwoven fabric similar to tweed.
Example sentencesExamples - Silently, Myra helped me slip the red dress off, and I quickly dressed myself in the thick homespun trousers and woolen shirt.
- Women wear long, homespun skirts and sweaters.
- He was barely adolescent and wore rough, homespun clothes and a round, hard top hat exactly the same as Adam had sported as a boy.
noun ˈhəʊmspʌnˈhoʊmˌspən mass nounHomespun cloth. Example sentencesExamples - The people wore ragged homespun and the women with painted faces, faded finery.
- On embarking for the court, Joan traded her red gown of peasant homespun for elite male garb.
- Gloria Sáez's attractive costumes for the solo singers were designed to flatter the figure, with flowing velvet for the nobility and homespun for the commoners.
- She slipped it over her head and loved the feel of such smooth fabric after more than a month of coarse homespun.
- Donegal was originally a thick and warm homespun or tweed woven by Irish peasants in Donegal, Ireland.
- The cloths she made for her family always looked of finer quality then normal homespun, and wore even longer.
- For example, Wright's chair features maple supports and upholstery in a cotton and wool fabric that has the texture of homespun.
Definition of homespun in US English: homespunadjectiveˈhōmˌspənˈhoʊmˌspən 1Simple and unsophisticated. Example sentencesExamples - The professionalism of the recent past, the thing that made the late '90s art world seem corporate and unsafe, is morphing into something less predictable, more homespun.
- Despite the homespun image it cultivates in its ads, it operates with an arrogance and avarice that would make the multinationals blush and John D. Rockefeller envious.
- ‘Do not trust homespun remedies,’ she added as a warning.
- Wigan's improvement since losing their first two matches has been both remarkable and romantic - a heart-warming tale of homespun success in these increasingly mercenary times.
- Many of them are not businesses on the traditional model at all, but homespun affairs staffed by teenagers and run out of bedrooms and even pubs.
- But she said he would benefit most from a piece of simple homespun advice.
- New employees are given a little book that combines Woodroffe's story with his homespun philosophy of success.
- His patient rise from humble origins to eminence, his simple tastes and homespun manner, inspired general affection.
- This is not some homespun philosophy to make us all feel better.
- Davenport's purposefully low-tech sculptures maintain a good balance of homespun craftsmanship and conceptual artistry.
- Their plain virtues and homespun beliefs are the bedrock of decency and integrity in our nation and in the world.
- She is conscious that her simple, homespun style left her open to misinterpretation.
- Already famous as the inventor of the lightning conductor, his homespun philosophizing and simple style charmed the world of the Court and the intellectual salons alike.
- The sessions are homespun affairs, filled with truisms and real-life examples that anyone can relate to.
- But what energises Bloom's deceptively simple book is not the homespun wisdom, but the extraordinary energy which he invests in his writing.
- There could even be a variety of homespun cottage industries that might sprout up in conjunction with the city, and could thrive and flourish as viable and even vital parts of it.
- Inspired by primitivism and American folk art, he painted idealized images of homespun America.
- So what has all this homespun philosophy got to do with the crisis in public liability insurance?
- There's something homespun, simple, and heroic about him.
- When Gen. Franks utters them, the words spin off his lips with a warm homespun flavor.
Synonyms unsophisticated, unpolished, unrefined, plain, simple, rustic, folksy, artless, modest, natural 2(of cloth or yarn) made or spun at home. Example sentencesExamples - Good homespun clothes… these should disguise you well enough.
- It almost seemed to be like the homespun cloth her shoulder sash was made from.
- Tweed is a rough textured wool, originally homespun and slightly felted.
- In the past, clothing was most often rough homespun cloth made from their own cotton, but today manufactured fabric or store-bought clothes are increasingly common.
- Women dressed up in fancy homespun cotton dresses and men wore their jeans, cowboy belts, silk, striped shirts.
- The early immigrants were usually clothed in homespun cloth and caps.
- ‘Oh, I was selling some of my homespun yarn to the tailor,’ Emily replied.
- His collarless shirt, though of simple homespun muslin, was very comfortable, and half-unlaced at the moment.
- ‘Chocolate would be fine,’ she said, taking a seat at the table nearest the counter and hanging her gray wool cloak on a peg on the wall, revealing that she was wearing a light blue homespun dress.
- They wear a uniform - blouse and trousers - of a bright homespun material, without any facings, but with brass buttons and collar ornaments.
- She looked no more than five and a half feet tall, and she wore a simple, pale red dress of homespun cotton.
- Only on isolated frontiers might homespun fabrics still be found; only among urban elites did imported textiles have a substantial market.
- No longer confined to the realm of the patriot, this homespun yarn has now entered the territory of international and domestic fashion.
- Doll makers dressed their creations in homespun materials or in clothing found in mountain stores.
- The men wear baggy trousers, usually made of indigo-dyed homespun fabric.
- Traditionally, they wear tunics and sarongs of homespun cotton, dyed red, blue, and black.
- His mother had spun and woven flax and wool; his father had operated a wool-carding mill and a shop for pressing and dyeing homespun cloth.
- Both male and female folk costumes made of homespun cloth and sheepskin were multi-colored and featured intricate embroidery.
- Its origin can be traced to the Indus Valley civilisation when the people used homespun cotton for weaving.
- The fabric is all pretty thin 100% cotton homespun stuff so the first thing that immediately leaps to mind is a summer dress for Amelia.
- 2.1 Denoting a coarse handwoven fabric similar to tweed.
Example sentencesExamples - Silently, Myra helped me slip the red dress off, and I quickly dressed myself in the thick homespun trousers and woolen shirt.
- He was barely adolescent and wore rough, homespun clothes and a round, hard top hat exactly the same as Adam had sported as a boy.
- Women wear long, homespun skirts and sweaters.
nounˈhōmˌspənˈhoʊmˌspən Coarse handwoven cloth. Example sentencesExamples - Donegal was originally a thick and warm homespun or tweed woven by Irish peasants in Donegal, Ireland.
- For example, Wright's chair features maple supports and upholstery in a cotton and wool fabric that has the texture of homespun.
- She slipped it over her head and loved the feel of such smooth fabric after more than a month of coarse homespun.
- Gloria Sáez's attractive costumes for the solo singers were designed to flatter the figure, with flowing velvet for the nobility and homespun for the commoners.
- The cloths she made for her family always looked of finer quality then normal homespun, and wore even longer.
- On embarking for the court, Joan traded her red gown of peasant homespun for elite male garb.
- The people wore ragged homespun and the women with painted faces, faded finery.
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