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Significados de nubby em inglês

Of textiles; having a rough surface.

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Examples for "homespun"
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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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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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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
Uso de nubby em inglês
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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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The man wore expensive-looking corduroy trousers, a rumpled jacket of nubby charcoal-colored linen.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
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A faded pink bedspread, nubby from use, was draped over the narrow twin bed.
She, myself & i
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Jake is a furnace, and I could feel his warmth through the nubby wool.
With friends like these
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Dot stretched off the bed, his tiny nubby tail wagging.
Perfect
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Parker rubbed her face with her hands, feeling the nubby scars under her palms.
The Good Girls
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The one thing I wanted at this moment was a nubby, and here it is.
Kitty Trenire
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Ali laid down the nubby scorecard pencil and stared at Emily for nearly a minute.
Wicked
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It is my grandfather, sitting in a nubby green oversized armchair in his living room.
The art of mending: a novel
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Cass picked up a large, nubby hot-pink one from the top shelf and weighed it in her hand.
Any way you want me
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Cheap nubby carpet over cement floor.
The Fireman
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Or the low bed that was neatly dressed in one of those grandmotherly white spreads with nubby protuberances.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
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