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home-sewn

home-sewn is the alternative form of homesewn.

Meaning of homesewn

Adjective

homesewn (not comparable)

  1. 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.

Words near home-sewn in the dictionary

  1. home-schoolers
  2. home-schooling
  3. home-schools
  4. home-set
  5. home-sets
  6. home-sewn
  7. home-sickness
  8. home-sicknesses
  9. home-sit
  10. home-sits
  11. home-sitting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: home-sewn (page history and authors); homesewn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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