home-set

home-set noun: type specific to a publisher.

Noun

home-set (plural home-sets)

Type specific to a publisher
- Agreeing to locate advertisements in advantageous places, they agreed also to carry a certain amount of material in “home-set” print in the news and editorial columns.2015, Thomas D. Clark, Holman Hamilton, Three American Frontiers: Writings of Thomas D. Clark, →ISBN, page 46
Device for home entertainment
- [R]adio now depends enormously on its replacements. Last year home-set replacements in fact account for some 3,000,000 units, or nearly three-fifths of the total U.S. home-set sales.2008, Kazuo Usui, The Development of Marketing Management, →ISBN
A perm that is applied at home, rather than in a beauty salon.
- The less 'fortunate', and I use the term advisedly, had only outward growth to adjust to, as spare tyres of rippling flesh burst forth from the space between elasticated hipster jeans and children's-sized short t-shirts; rolls of belly and blobs of overspilling back-cleavage, which at least ensured...2007, Christopher Nosnibor, Bad Houses, →ISBN, page 21
- And her home-set perm looked, as the commercial had promised, like it had been done in a salon.2014, Ken Wheaton, Sweet as Cane, Salty as Tears, →ISBN

home-set (not comparable)

Set by the user, as opposed to by a professional.
- In almost every home, behind the home-set, swirly glass window-pane, hung one of the blue star flags with one, or two, or more blue stars in its center indicating the male members of the family in the service.2011, James Jones, Whistle, →ISBN

plural	home-sets

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