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  • noun rare A garment made from roughly spun yarn or made from a coarse material.
  • adjective of a garment or cloth Woven from a coarsely spun yarn, (usually also from a coarse material).
  • adjective figuratively Unpolished, rough and ready, uncultured, unsophisticated.

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Examples

  • He nodded, wiping his blade carefully on the roughspun tunic adorning the nearest corpse, and then, without warning, knelt in the dust.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

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