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Significados de homespun em inglês

Of textiles; having a rough surface.

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Characteristic of country life.

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Examples for "tweedy"
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A tweedy man with a small mustache stood in the doorway.
Talents, Incorporated
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Essentially with what amounts to a tweedy shrug of the shoulders.
News.com.au
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It's a word loved by tweedy academics because of its ambiguity and obscurity.
The Irish Times
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And then there were the tweedy ones, but only a few.
The Hustler
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You see the rumpled tweedy fellow talking to St. Clare?
Arcadia falls
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He wore a nubby jacket and a silk turtleneck and sipped scotch.
The lost recipe for happiness
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He wore baggy dungarees and rubber boots, with a thick, nubby sweater.
Four dukes and a devil
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Attitude lifted the bat for a third blow, his nubby teeth clenched.
Boy’s Life
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Aren't Were-Hunters supposed to be extra special nubby treats for them?
No mercy
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Jack exhaled a cloud of blue, the nubby cigarette falling to the floor.
Street magic
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She had new breasts, still nubbly but there, under her shirt.
Losing charlotte
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Most of us just muddle along with nubbly condoms and vibrators.
More bitter than death: an emma fielding mystery
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This low, nubbly tongue of land was roughly triangular.
The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
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Presently our vehicle bumps across a nubbly bridge, and enters what was once a fair city.
All in It : K(1) Carries On
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It was one of those hard, nubbly rolls.
A Man of Means

Homespun.

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Homespun fabric.

Uso de homespun em inglês
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Other computer companies, however, have tried the homespun direct-marketing approach and failed.
Wired
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TESTER embroidered in crewels in shades of blue on white homespun linen.
The Development of Embroidery in America
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Underwear and sleeping garments were made of the natural colored homespun cloth.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
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The men wore shoes made of bark and homespun shirts and coats.
Resurrection
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Rawhide was used in place of lines, and homespun garments were uniform.
My Native Land / The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, a...
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And wherever you went, you found a population smilingly clad in homespun.
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 / F...
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The sombre homespun garments had given place to fringed and beaded buckskin.
The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel
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The homespun exhibition still housed inside the 240-year-old building is incredibly poignant.
The Guardian
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How utterly homespun, I scoffed in a fair imitation of Simon himself.
Tuck
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And there beside it stood a homespun figure surely known to me.
The Helmet of Navarre
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They ain't used to coarse homespun stuff down there in the village.
The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Ti...
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The hearth was cold, and heavy homespun cloth hung over the windows.
The Angel Stone
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The women were weaving homespun, knitting socks, nursing the wounded, and praying.
Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. / Final Memoir...
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All of my clothes, up to the age of fourteen, were homespun.
Charles Carleton Coffin: War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, a...
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He removed that as well, revealing a plain grey shirt of homespun.
The Name of the Wind
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The one she had bought had been brown, a rough homespun weave.
Dreamsnake
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