homespun

From home +‎ spun.

homespun (not comparable)

1. (of yarn) Spun in the home.
2. (of fabric) Woven in the home.
3. (of clothing, etc.) Made from homespun fabric.
   • 1855–1859, Washington Irving, The Life of George Washington

     homespun country garbs

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250:

     He became more and more excited; he rose from the sofa, walked up and down the floor with hurried steps and fought with his hands in the air, till the light flickered hither and thither, while the sweeping tail of his long grey home-spun coat described long circles every time he swung himself round and raised himself on his longer leg, for, like Tyrtaeus and Peter Solvold of our parish, he was afflicted with a limp.

4. (by extension) Plain and homely; unsophisticated and unpretentious.

   Synonyms: down-home, cracker-barrel

   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     our homespun English proverb

   • 1707, Joseph Addison, Prologue to Phaedra and Hippolitus (spoken by Mr. Wilkes, written by Edmund Smith)

     our homespun authors must forsake the field

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homespun (countable and uncountable, plural homespuns)

1. Fabric made from homespun yarn. Also, machine made fabrics (usually cottons) similar to homespun fabrics in that solids, plaids, or stripes are created by weaving dyed threads (rather than printing), so that both sides of the fabric look the same.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:homespun.
2. (obsolete) An unpolished, rustic person.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:homespun.

• down-home
• homegrown
• roughspun

homespun m (uncountable)

1. homespun (fabric)

• “homespun”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.