Crossword clues for homespun
homespun
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homespun \Home"spun\, n.
Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.
An unpolished, rustic person. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Homespun \Home"spun\, a.
Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. ``Homespun country garbs.''
--W. Irving.Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. ``Our homespun English proverb.''
--Dryden. ``Our homespun authors.''
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of yarn English) spun in the home. 2 (context of fabric English) woven in the home. 3 (context of clothing etc English) Made from homespun fabric. 4 (context by extension English) plain and homely; unsophisticated and unpretentious. n. 1 Fabric made from homespun yarn. 2 (context obsolete English) An unpolished, rustic person. Example: "What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here?" - Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream Act III Scene I
WordNet
n. a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with homespun yarn [syn: homespun fabric]
adj. of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns" [syn: homespun(p), nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy]
characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys" [syn: cracker-barrel, folksy]
made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen"; "homespun garments"
Wikipedia
Homespun is a demo album by XTC released by Cooking Vinyl and Idea Records. A companion to Apple Venus Volume 1, it has the same running order as its parent album. It was reissued in 2005 as a part of the Apple Box.
Homespun was an English pop/folk band formed in 2003 by Dave Rotheray, ex-songwriter and musician from the 15 million record selling band The Beautiful South. Homespun was originally a side project, designed as an outlet for Rotheray’s solo compositions. Other band members were Sam Brown, Melvin Duffy, Tony Robinson, Clare Mactaggart, Gary Hammond and Alan Jones.
The band recorded three critically acclaimed albums, Homespun (2003), Effortless Cool (2005) and Short Stories From East Yorkshire (2008). On this final album, Rotheray introduced guest vocals to the format, with contributions from Eleanor McEvoy and Mary Coughlan. All the Homespun albums and singles were released on Rotheray’s own Homespun Recordings label.
The band toured the UK four times, playing mostly in folk clubs and small venues. The band split up in August 2008, with Rotheray stating his intention to pursue a solo career. All other band members are still active in music, but it is unclear whether they will ever re-unite and perform together again.
Homespun, also known as the Bell House, is a historic home located near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. It is a vernacular, 2 1/2 story log, frame, stone and brick structure dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The earliest section was built in the 1790s, and is a three-bay wooden structure consisting of two log pens with a frame connector, or dogtrot, and covered with weatherboards. A two-story, two-bay, stone and brick addition was built about 1820. Also on the property is a contributing stone smokehouse.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Usage examples of "homespun".
The men were dressed in raggedy furs, buckskin, and homespun in shades of butternut and brown.
From the dark interior a terrific bellowing erupted, followed by the form of a slight man dressed in ragged homespun who fairly flew through the air to land in a hump in the road.
Nathaniel brought her a bowl of water from the falls and tore strips from an old homespun hunting shirt so that Elizabeth could wash, but there was not enough time in the world to put herself in order.
Sometime in the last hour he had bathed and shaved and he was wearing a fresh shirt, linen this time rather than homespun or buckskin, creamy white against the tanned column of his neck.
On his heavily muscled upper chest there was a brand that Nathaniel could just see through the opening in the homespun shirt.
Her homespun dress had been dyed a hasty and uneven black, and it matched the frown on her face.
He hoped that the same was true for her, and so he stripped out of his buckskin and homespun and slipped naked into the cocoon of fur next to her.
As Fergus and I ducked under the creeper after Jamie, a large woman in homespun whirled toward us, shoulders hunching as she raised the broken tree limb she clutched in one hand.
A swirl of rusty aspen leaves blew down, clinging momentarily to the homespun of their breeches and the light wool of their stockings.
She wore breeks of homespun, and the long muscle of her thigh rose up tight and round against the cloth when she squatted beside him, head bent as she groped in her leather bag.
There was no hint of the deep-webbed scars that lined his back beneath the homespun cloak, but I knew them well.
She was dressed very plainly, in the rough brown homespun she wore on the Ridge, but the clothes were fresh and clean.
He wore three calico shirts, one atop the other, homespun breeches, and the odd drooping cap, rather like a half-wound turban, that men favored for formal occasions, plus long silver earrings and a handsome brooch in the shape of the rising sun.
He wore nothing but a pair of stained homespun breeches, tied at the waist with a length of tarred rope, and was burned so dark by the sun that he might have been a Negro, save for the spill of long black hair that fell over one shoulder, decorated with bits of shell and tiny dried starfish tied into it.
Merritt let the homespun curtain fall across the depressing sight and paced back to his chair, where papers were scattered on the scarred table.