From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Homespun \Home"spun\, adjective
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.
2. An unpolished, rustic person. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns" [syn: {homespun(p)}, {nubby}, {nubbly}, {slubbed}, {tweedy}]
2: characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys" [syn: {cracker-barrel}, {folksy}]
3: made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen"; "homespun garments"
noun
1: a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with homespun yarn [syn: {homespun fabric}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
192 Moby Thesaurus words for "homespun": 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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