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Homespun

Homespun Meaning & Definition
Homespun Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Homespun?

[n] a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with homespun yarn
[adj] made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen"; "homespun garments"
[adj] characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Homespun: cracker-barrel | folksy | homemade | homespun fabric | rural

Related Terms | Find terms related to Homespun: amateur | amateurish | arcadian | ascetic | assembled | Attic | austere | Babbittish | bald | bare | basic | bourgeois | broken | bucolic | built | bumpy | campy | candid | cast | chaste | choppy | classic | classical | coarse | coarse-grained | common | commonplace | constructed | corrugated | crafted | created | cross-grained | crude | custom | custom-built | custom-made | direct | down-to-earth | dry | dull | elementary | essential | everyday | extracted | fabricated | fashioned | forged | formed | frank | fundamental | garden | garden-variety | gathered | general | genuine | grainy | granulated | grown | handcrafted | handmade | harvested | high-camp | homely | homemade | homogeneous | horripilant | household | inartificial | indivisible | inelegant | inequal | irreducible | irregular | jolty | kitschy | lean | linsey-woolsey | low-camp | machined | machine-made | made | made to order | man-made | manufactured | matter-of-fact | mere | milled | mined | molded | monolithic | native | natural | naturelike | neat | nondescript | of a piece | open | ordinary | pastoral | Philistine | pimply | pitted | plain | plain-speaking | plain-spoken | plebeian | pocky | pop | popular | potholed | prefab | prefabricated | primal | primary | processed | prosaic | prosing | prosy | public | pure | pure and simple | put together | raised | rank | ready-formed | ready-for-wear | ready-made | ready-prepared | ready-to-wear | refined | ripply | rough | rough-cast | rough-grained | rough-hewn | rude | ruffled | rural | rustic | rutted | rutty | severe | shagged | shaggy | shaped | simon-pure | simple | simple-speaking | single | smelted | sober | spare | Spartan | stark | straightforward | textured | unadorned | unaffected | unartificial | unassuming | uncluttered | undesigning | undifferenced | undifferentiated | undisguising | undissembling | undissimulating | unembellished | uneven | unfeigning | uniform | unimaginative | unkempt | unlevel | unpoetical | unpolished | unpretending | unpretentious | unprofessional | unrefined | unsmooth | unsophisticated | unspoiled | ununiform | unvarnished | vernacular | well-built | well-constructed | well-made | wimpled | workaday | workday

See Also | cloth | fabric | material | russet | textile

Homespun In Webster's Dictionary

\Home"spun\, a. 1. Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. ``Homespun country garbs.'' --W. Irving. 2. Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. ``Our homespun English proverb.'' --Dryden. ``Our homespun authors.'' --Addison.
\Home"spun\, n. 1. Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun. 2. An unpolished, rustic person. [Obs.] --Shak.

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