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homespun

adjective as in spun from home

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Long processions of women, many of them bearing a takli or spindle to honour Gandhi's commitment to homespun khadi cloth, take over Bombay's streets, quite literally pushing men to the very margins.

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And while it may seem homespun, Paul and Linda McCartney and their growing family are the group’s down-to-earth epicenter.

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Yet his homespun wit and his emotional specificity also bear the influence of the master he describes as his “songwriting GOAT”: John Prine.

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And frankly, in these conditions, I should be getting more erratic literature from modest, homespun polygamist cults capitalizing on the moment, enticing me with the rent-free, abandoned farmhouse its nude members get to share.

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It didn't help matters that he had become a dull and listless speaker, in sharp contrast to both his early homespun style and the sparkling rhetoric and optimism the former actor Reagan regularly supplied.

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

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