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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hand-made

also handmade, 1610s, from hand (n.) + made.

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hand-made

a. (alternative form of handmade English)

Usage examples of "hand-made".

His closely trimmed hair was grey at the temples and although most of the men flying that night would be wearing white roll-neck sweaters and stained battledress, Munro was never seen on duty in anything other than his well-tailored barathea with his hand-made shoes polished like patent leather.

They must be size fourteen in those gleaming hand-made chukka boots, and she smiled again thoughtfully.

Boaz hefted his present, a hand-made spear from the African Nomarchy of Azania, where Kaseko Wugabe had been born.

Hammond harmonica, brought with him from Earth, their instruments were hand-made by Paul Dwyer, the bassist, and their repertoire mainly consists of twentieth century blues and country standards.

On the docks, crude hand-made shrines memorializing Manion the Innocent were strewn with flowers and colorful shells.

The rough hand-made papers so heartily despised by the copyists of the thirteenth century are now preferred by neat penmen and skilled draughtsmen.

Lee-Metfords that had survived the Anglo Boer war, alesser number of German Mausers salvaged from his encounters with Askari across the Rovuma, and a very few of the expensive hand-made doubles by Gibbs and Messrs Greener of London.

The knife was more delicate than the issue-model Jamieson tucked into her boot, hand-made by Ildaren of Marrakesh, a slender-edged spike of steel fifteen centimeters long.

Hand-made tapaderas protected his Levi pants, and silver spurs jangled from his high-heeled boots.

I wore the full Monty, a grey suit out of the window, a tie selected by your Auntie Ruth, socks to match, the shoes hand-made by Lobb of St James's which was always my indulgence.

Once almost every household had had one, and the lady of the house fitted her hand-made clothing to it.

The prophesiers of doom, those persistent grey creatures with their hand-made signs saying the end is nigh seemed most put out.