homespun

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  1. adjective Spun or woven in the home: homespun linen.
  2. adjective Made of a homespun fabric: a homespun tablecloth.
  3. adjective Simple and homely; unpretentious: "Most small towns would have gladly forfeited some of their homespun values if it meant luring a firm there” (William Mueller).

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  • His men were badly clothed in homespun, a light wear which afforded little warmth. —  The Life of Francis Marion
  • In his homespun, the gawky youth looked what he was—not the owner of the craft and about to try a speculation on the river, but one of the “scrubs.” The “scrubs,” not from any relation with washing—quite otherwise—were those poor families on the outskirts of towns who lived in the scrub or dwarfed pines. —  The Lincoln Story Book
  • Vintage fabrics such as homespun, faded cotton prints, old quilts (even worn ones can be cut up and used as pillow covers or framed), old tablecloths from the 1940s and aprons from the same era with fruit patterns and such are in demand. —  KeysNews.com -
  • Faith comes by hearing the "word of Christ," whether from the eloquent or the homespun, the pastoral or the prophetic, the scholarly or the untutored. —  Greensboring® Greensboro, NC
  • It was a concourse of men in homespun, and women and girls in such improvised finery as their poor resources could supply; possibly, in default of better, some wore nightgowns, more or less disguised, over their daily dress, as happened on similar occasions half a century later among the frontiersmen of West Virginia. —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
 

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  1. from home + spun, past participle of spin, v.
 

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/ˈhoʊmspən/
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