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грубый домашний (о материи: I think about all the strangeness of his being here, sleeping in homespun sheets, wearing the same clothes for days on end, eating bread and cheese, and not complaining about any of it.) |
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домотканая материя (I rested my cheek against the rough homespun of his jacket, knowing that my wish was a vain one. • He wore homespun, but it was well tailored to his body.) |
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олух; деревенщина |
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сделанный из домотканой материи; домотканый; кустарный (о пряже); непокупной (особ. об одежде Супру); домашнего прядения; ручного прядения; сермяжный; простой |
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примитивный; непритязательный; невзрачный; грубый; грубоватый; сермяжный (homespun truth • homespun philosophies of life); без изысков (VLZ_58); без излишеств (VLZ_58); без заморочек (VLZ_58); простой и понятный (On November 15, Will Rogers neatly and characteristically summed up the American attitude toward the prospect of a second French-German conflict with a simple, homespun image. The United States, he said, ought to "just let those two old tomcats whose tails are tied together over the fence alone and try to cure the scratches we got the last time we tried to untie 'em.  goodreads.com); кустарный |
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доморощенный (Anglophile) |
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тяжевый |
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смурый (of cloth) |
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a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home (I rested my cheek against the rough homespun of his jacket, knowing that my wish was a vain one. • He wore homespun, but it was well tailored to his body. vocabulary.com) |
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used to describe opinions or ideas that are simple and not based on special knowledge (Synonyms: unsophisticated, homely, plain, rough: The book is simple homespun philosophy. collinsdictionary.com); something homespun has a simple, coarse feel (like your homespun plan to bring about world peace by giving everyone a daily spoonful of your aunt's delicious strawberry jam; Homespun literally means spun at home. If you spin the wool from your sheep into yarn, and then make a dress out of it, it won't be as fine or precise as fabric spun in a factory. Back in the day when large portions of the population couldn't afford milled cloth, homespun fabric marked you as poor, or just a farmer living off the land. Today we use homespun to describe anything that seems homemade, simple, or folksy, from homespun linens to homespun philosophies of life vocabulary.com) |
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made from cloth that has been made at home, rather than in a factory (of clothes: Most of them still wore the homespun clothes in which they had left their farms. collinsdictionary.com); spun at home |
