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homespun

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homespun
1. cloth made at home or made of yarn spun at home
2. a cloth resembling this but made on a power loom
homespun [′hōm‚spən]
(textiles)
A general term for cloth handwoven at home instead of in a mill such as the linsey-woolsey, butternut, and coarse flannels made on handlooms by early American settlers.
Coarse fabrics woven from linen or cotton, for example, drapery fabrics.
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During the dialogue the young hunter had thrown aside his overcoat, and now stood clad in a plain suit of the common, light-colored homespun of the country, that was evidently but recently made.
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When he had gone into the house, Ursula, turning impatiently from the window, tripped and almost fell over the big ball of homespun yarn her father had flung on the floor.
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