Of textiles; having a rough surface.
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Examples for "homespun "
Examples for "homespun "
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.
1 A tweedy man with a small mustache stood in the doorway.
2 Essentially with what amounts to a tweedy shrug of the shoulders.
3 It's a word loved by tweedy academics because of its ambiguity and obscurity.
4 And then there were the tweedy ones, but only a few.
5 You see the rumpled tweedy fellow talking to St. Clare?
1 He wore a nubby jacket and a silk turtleneck and sipped scotch.
2 He wore baggy dungarees and rubber boots, with a thick, nubby sweater.
3 Attitude lifted the bat for a third blow, his nubby teeth clenched.
4 Aren't Were-Hunters supposed to be extra special nubby treats for them?
5 Jack exhaled a cloud of blue, the nubby cigarette falling to the floor.
1 She had new breasts, still nubbly but there, under her shirt.
2 Most of us just muddle along with nubbly condoms and vibrators.
3 This low, nubbly tongue of land was roughly triangular.
4 Presently our vehicle bumps across a nubbly bridge, and enters what was once a fair city.
5 It was one of those hard, nubbly rolls.
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