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Meanings of homespun in English
Synonyms
Examples for "folksy"
Examples for "folksy"
1
The 48-minute address was classic Clinton: folksy, funny and at times professorial.
2
Their motel has been taken over by pensioners -folksy tributes remain.
3
A young couple check into a folksy B&B on a winter's night.
4
Marguerite Roberts put some perky, folksy spin on it four decades ago.
5
It is not as fashionable as Coachella or as folksy as Bonnaroo.
1
You just be sure and tell everyone back home that I ain't no cracker-barrel fishball.
2
As each guest surfaced from the cracker-barrel he fielded them with a patronising show of interest.
3
Plot holes, cracker-barrel philosophizing and the decision to set a climactic scene offscreen serve to undo all their fine work.
4
I'll have no grasping tyrants sittin' 'round on my cracker-barrels!
5
"You said," he proceeded, "that you wouldn't have them sitting 'round on your cracker-barrels."
Usage of homespun in English
1
Other computer companies, however, have tried the homespun direct-marketing approach and failed.
2
TESTER embroidered in crewels in shades of blue on white homespun linen.
3
Underwear and sleeping garments were made of the natural colored homespun cloth.
4
The men wore shoes made of bark and homespun shirts and coats.
5
Rawhide was used in place of lines, and homespun garments were uniform.
6
And wherever you went, you found a population smilingly clad in homespun.
7
The sombre homespun garments had given place to fringed and beaded buckskin.
8
The homespun exhibition still housed inside the 240-year-old building is incredibly poignant.
9
How utterly homespun, I scoffed in a fair imitation of Simon himself.
10
And there beside it stood a homespun figure surely known to me.
11
They ain't used to coarse homespun stuff down there in the village.
12
The hearth was cold, and heavy homespun cloth hung over the windows.
13
The women were weaving homespun, knitting socks, nursing the wounded, and praying.
14
All of my clothes, up to the age of fourteen, were homespun.
15
He removed that as well, revealing a plain grey shirt of homespun.
16
The one she had bought had been brown, a rough homespun weave.
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Homespun through the time
Homespun across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common