homespun

homespun
Synonyms and related words:
Attic, Babbittish, Philistine, Spartan, amateur, amateurish, arcadian, ascetic, assembled, austere, 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, machine-made, machined, 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, 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-for-wear, ready-formed, 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, 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

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  • homespun — [ omspɶn ] n. m. • 1890; mot angl. « filé (spun) à la maison » ♦ Anglic. Tissu écossais primitivement fabriqué à domicile par des artisans. ⇒HOMESPUN, subst. masc. Tissu de laine fabriqué, à l origine, à domicile, par des artisans d Écosse.… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Homespun — Home spun, a. 1. Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. Homespun country garbs. W. Irving. [1913 Webster] 2. Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. Our homespun English proverb. Dryden. Our homespun authors …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • homespun — HÓMESPUN s.n. Tip de ţesătură pentru stofe de lână care imită lucrul în războiul de casă. [< engl. homespun]. Trimis de LauraGellner, 21.04.2005. Sursa: DN  HOMESPUN HĂUM SPöN/ s. n. ţesătură de lână ecosez, la războiul de ţesut manual, din… …   Dicționar Român

  • homespun — [hōm′spun΄] n. 1. cloth made of yarn spun at home 2. coarse, loosely woven cloth like this adj. 1. spun or made at home 2. made of homespun 3. plain; unpretentious; homely [homespun virtues] …   English World dictionary

  • Homespun — Home spun, n. 1. Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun. [1913 Webster] 2. An unpolished, rustic person. [Obs.] Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • *homespun — ● homespun nom masculin (anglais homespun, filé à la maison) Tissu de laine écossais, primitivement fabriqué par des ouvriers à domicile …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Homespun — (engl., spr. hōm ßpönn, »daheim gesponnen«), grobfadiger, mit Chinagrasfasern melierter und leicht gerauhter Damenkleiderstoff mit 13–16 Fäden auf 1 cm Bindung Köper 2/2 …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • homespun — index inelegant, mundane, ordinary, simple Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • homespun — (adj.) 1580s, spun at home,” from HOME (Cf. home) + SPUN (Cf. spun). Figurative sense of “plain, homely” is from c.1600. As a noun, from c.1600 …   Etymology dictionary

  • homespun — (izg. hȏumspan) m DEFINICIJA rukom tkana tkanina od meke, dugodlake vunene pređe ETIMOLOGIJA engl …   Hrvatski jezični portal

  • homespun — [adj] spun from home crude, handcrafted, handmade, homemade, ordinary, plain, rough, rustic, simple, unrefined, unsophisticated; concept 536 …   New thesaurus

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