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home-made adj
1. (Cookery) (esp of cakes, jam, and other foods) made at home or on the premises, esp of high-quality ingredients 2. crudely fashioned Translations home-made [ˌhəumˈmeɪd] adj → fatto/a in casa, casalingo/a home-made [ˌhəumˈmeɪd] adj → fatto/a in casa, casalingo/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| On her first visit to Mercedes Higgins, Saxon received the recipe for home-made soap and her head was filled with a minutiae of instruction in the art of fine washing. Aunt Jessie had raptures over the home-made carpets, quilts and quaint furniture; Rose could not keep away from the windows, for each framed a lovely picture; and the little folks made friends at once with the other children, who filled their arms with chickens and kittens, and did the honours handsomely. As, whenever the Reverend Septimus fell a-musing, his good mother took it to be an infallible sign that he 'wanted support,' the blooming old lady made all haste to the dining-room closet, to produce from it the support embodied in a glass of Constantia and a home-made biscuit. |
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