home-sewn
home-sewn is the alternative form of homesewn.
Meaning of homesewn
Adjective
homesewn (not comparable)
- Sewn at home (rather than in a factory, shop, etc.).
- A plague on these “labour-saving” machines of our Yankee cousins, they invade everything—from old Aunt Grace’s work-box and needle-craft—good, wholesome, home-sewn shirts and their slop rivals—to the poetry of the hayfield.1869, William Henry Hamilton Rogers, Wanderings in Devon, Seaton, “Colcombe and the Devonshire Antiquary,” p. 161
Questions about home-sewn
- What is home-sewn the alternative form of?
- Home-sewn is the alternative form of homesewn.
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