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homespun

adjective as in spun from home

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Occupying three rooms at the museum’s first-floor galleries, the exhibition includes about 50 objects and architecture projects, ranging from efficient diagnostic kits to inventive ventilators, homespun face masks, and innovative hospital designs.

From Quartz

He rents out a midtown apartment, dons a homespun Spider-Man costume and begins a lonely life of fighting crime and trying to make rent.

From Time

The majority of his food is touched by a hearth that serves as the focal point in the homespun dining room and gets as hot as 1,000 degree in its center.

The Freis take a homespun approach that’s hard for a larger chain to replicate.

From Eater

Over the course of this traumatic year, many of us will have discovered homespun therapies in granularity.

We play dodge ball, ride giant tricycles, and craft homespun jalopies for the adult soapbox derby.

We are thirsty for his signature wit, warmth, and homespun wisdom.

Martha Washington dressed in homespun clothing to differentiate herself from royalty.

Brett makes it clear from the outset of Trauma Farm that this is not another cozy paean to the homespun rural life.

While the pose of the players remain the same, Rockwell altered the final picture to give it a more homespun feeling.

I would rather go to church with Dolly in homespun, than ride in a carriage beside that shrivelled piece of tanned leather.

There was no finery in her wardrobe, a few neat cotton gowns for summer wear, and homespun for the winter—that was all.

At this the door flew open and a skinny woman appeared, her homespun frock pendent with tow-headed urchins.

The last arrivals were two tall women in homespun dresses and calico sunbonnets.

That was why, instinctively, she had put on her old homespun with a vague purpose of reparation to them.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to homespun, such as: rustic, crude, ordinary, plain, rough, and simple.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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