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Meanings of homespun in inglês
Sinônimos
Examples for "tweedy"
Examples for "tweedy"
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?
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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.
Usage of homespun in inglês
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.
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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.
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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