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- noun Plural form of
homespun .
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Examples
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Her favorite country colors and homespuns were conspicuously absent, but she found batiks and tropical floral prints in abundance.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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She had never attempted one herself, as she preferred country colors, homespuns, and folk art designs more than the intricate, two-color appliqué patterns unique to the Hawaiian style.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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Her favorite country colors and homespuns were conspicuously absent, but she found batiks and tropical floral prints in abundance.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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She had never attempted one herself, as she preferred country colors, homespuns, and folk art designs more than the intricate, two-color appliqué patterns unique to the Hawaiian style.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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Her favorite country colors and homespuns were conspicuously absent, but she found batiks and tropical floral prints in abundance.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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She had never attempted one herself, as she preferred country colors, homespuns, and folk art designs more than the intricate, two-color appliqué patterns unique to the Hawaiian style.
The Aloha Quilt Jennifer Chiaverini 2010
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I pulled down the homespuns that had covered him and found he was naked beneath them.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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The girl, a sturdy stout figure in her warm homespuns and knitted cap, halted panting beneath the very tree he must watch.
The Stars Are Ours Norton, Andre 1954
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In the winter time we had homespuns, too, but sometimes had flannel underwear.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Put on us clean homespuns en long drawers, dat been hang down round us ankles like boots, en all us get a new bonnet dat day.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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