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  • noun Plural form of homespun.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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